On 12/2/24 2:15 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 2/12/24 22:39, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2024-12-02 at 08:54 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
Sorry, this is my fault. I'm used to working with html mails where
the response is black text and the quotes are colour coded for quotes
from different responders, and I keep forgetting that environments
that insist on using text only potentially don't have the colour
coding to make things obvious.
I am seeing your HTML mail, and while it does highlight the edge of
different sections, one huge slab of text makes it difficult to find
new comments in the middle. And when replying to such things, quotes
often get joined together that shouldn't.
It doesn't matter whether you post HTML or plain text, it helps things
an awful lot when there's a gap between things. Just the same as it
helps when people use paragraphs. I know someone on another list who
can write three pages of text as one paragraph. My eyes run out of
breath reading them.
My mail program does colour quotes different from new content, but with
plain text mail all quotes are grey, new text is black. And if a
poster didn't leave a gap between quotes and replies, often the reply
is coloured the same as the quote. With HTML mail, it relies on the
message styling itself. Yours are all black text, with coloured
stripes running down the side.
That's interesting. In Thunderbird I'm seeing things differently,
depending on who is reply to threads I'm seeing the entire quote with a
black line down the side and text in black, for other people I see a
coloured stripe and the text in blue.
For the quotes you are replying to I see a dark blue stripe and light
blue text with your response in black. What is also interesting is that
for to portion of your response I'm replying to, in this composition
that quote has a dark blue stripe and black text.
I think that's the difference between Thunderbird showing a plain text
message vs. an HTML message. Since you send both, I can switch between
which one is shown and see the difference as you describe. As someone
else mentioned, with HTML messages Thunderbird can only show it as it
was sent, so that's why you get black quoted text. With plain text, it
identifies the quotes, colors the text differently, and creates the
quote bars on the left with different colors.
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