In article <3196.1614554436@localhost> you write: >-=-=-=-=-=- > > >John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Indeed, but that was many decades ago. There are some ways in which the > > IETF is cutting edge, some in which we are amusingly backward. Most of > > the people I deal with can send an e-mail that says "I highlighted the > > changes in yellow" and all of their correspondents see the yellow > > text. Try that here. Remember that MIME was invented in the IETF and > > HTML down the virtual hall from here, both about 30 years ago. > >Yup, and those same people also click on the links that install malware on >their computer, and require billions of dollars/year of protection against >trojans. This kind of snark is not very helpful. Rendering colors in HTML has nothing to do with whether a system has security bugs that let random web links install software. Even lynx can render colors and it's not going to install anything. >[Besides, highlighting changes in *yellow* is stupid, and it represents a >failure of our protocols. You should highlight changes as mark-up, or as a >delta against a webdav] Interesting guess, but in this case wrong. R's, John
