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On 25/04/16 13:39, Tim McNamara wrote: > On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:00 AM, Andrew Bernard > <andrew.bern...@gmail.com <mailto:andrew.bern...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > >> Greetings All, >> >> In a recent post David Wright asks of a user: >> >>> Please configure your client to post a text equivalent of your >>> HTML >> code. >> >> He also asked me to do that. > > The reality is that the world, given the ubiquity of broadband and > graphical interfaces, has moved on from plain text. It is no > longer the standard and has not been for a decade or more- most > Internet users have, I suspect, no knowledge of this old standard > any longer. Expecting others to accommodate what is now an out of > date standard will simply continue to create issues. It's like > expecting web developers to accommodate lynx in creating Web pages- > probably not going to happen very often. > > One can choose to use text-only software but at this point we are > responsible for our own problems if we do. The world has changed > and left us behind. > > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user > mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Your comments about broadband being ubiquitous are unfounded. Even where broadband is claimed, plenty of people still struggle on with around 1Mb/s. Using BT in the south east of England we only get 1.6 Mb/s and I don't appreciate sitting and waiting just so that exploding blancmange can be projected onto my screen. Stick to ASCII for text and keep the fancy stuff for when it's needed. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXHp64AAoJEAF3yXsqtyBldjcQAJY01Tps3TH8XT15lPWPRnde HeI4iulwxTmUNa8eSxD4wr+50LtUkm4q5jv4vgtBKriqshvgqi8BpafZKkZKzYCR 0uKsxe4THS6RL+37UhZoacSAdI/PCmBf6P+4WI2Op/C8jFT3d/I8NrIA9DZdK311 OEnnNfH2pVbfc7a1AtyDwi5A/CjDX7l2+GcCHJfDcBnqKLALzAZrRP5sjTEOKpWE P6O/wjb4scTOeMz3nHU5Xx1DYSkfgp0t8w/9x+3Ye7q28rCqWER0ov2JvmnvZ60Y z/rEs2n7SROMefnlFwvoEQjYuSgKd21YowK8RosGTnS3xjpySZFchC16hPEa/yAF hTklD/sfs4PIJoSSakkF5IjgCG1t9EcwjYChgNazGmsL68q3UIFRNMVvnf35Gp62 NwHjpKBy6X0Hk4s6IZZCwDUq1tCHHoeHUyBms1c+3+5tNUdZbSx56L/qpe95vOyf 2j4ke5VAZvvaHoLKP/y+Efcc3+f2dXg2w1H4b+cFeAutuyNjNNtnzZvsoE8MaqSC w9p03abDJJ5qvv8k0GIlZ7pqX718lTmm99+SBnhTHxuH5vl+zLhZDf4Up4vdHUwG kypb3pXuaLGWYsUGs7quSxDeShldU+HzBvUSvSR+yK3GTrum1AKBxRHjKizS7uTZ 278CC1l35c5a168DEELn =dZ8W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
