On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Scott Kitterman <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's possibly true, but given the goal of the working group, it may turn out
to be the best we can do. In my limited IETF experience, I've seen several
variants of "we aren't U/I experts, so we should stay away from it". That may
be true, but we may not get out of this one without having to give some strong
guidance.
For the large fraction of email users today that are doing it via webmail
where the service provider controls the MUA experience directly, the timeline
for improvement can be relatively short compared to traditional software
deployment cycles.
Do we have any reason to believe that such advice would be read by anyone in a position to bring about its implementation? How much do MUAs apply, as Ned cited, RFC2049?
Whatever each of us thinks of our collective UI expertise is unimportant if MUA developers will end up disregarding our advice and following their own anyway.
As I've said before, perhaps we should try to encourage major MUA developers to participate. That would allay all such concerns. We might even get Sender to matter again.
As I've said before, perhaps we should try to encourage major MUA developers to participate. That would allay all such concerns. We might even get Sender to matter again.
-MSK