Sounds good Jeffrey,
See my one comment in line.
-Brian
On Jun 14, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
Hi Brian,
Thanks for the quick response.
First alternative types are intended to provide the same information
in the different renderable formats such as HTML, Rich Text, and
Plain Text. While it could be argued that .ics and .eimml are just
different views of the same data, .ics and .eimml are not
*renderable* in Email Clients.
I'd argue that text/plain is a step down from the data we're sending
(EIMML). If Thunderbird had an XSL pre-processor of XML bodies I
think
my argument would be stronger (we could make the .eimml render
nicely in
browsers that way), in the real world I buy that it's a bit of a
stretch
to think of EIMML as closely analogous to HTML.
I am also concerned about making this
wide a change at this point in the Preview schedule (I am leaving on
June 21st for EuroPython).
Sure, not for preview. Perhaps afterwards? Lets pick up this thread
again when we're over the hump ;)
Second using the alternative type means the average user will not see
the (ics or eimml) in his or her mail client. This to me is also an
issue. If a non-Chandler user wants to add the Event or Task to
Outlook or ICal, the .ics file will not be accessible. In fact the
user will not even know that an .ics attachment was sent with the
message.
I think we'd probably want to continue to add .ics attachments for
events. A large fraction of Chandler emails would still have
attachments, but I think iCalendar attachments are more
recognizable and
thus less annoying. I still think having our "normal" emails not have
attachments would be a win.
I was not advocating getting rid of ICS. I think it is a very important
tool for adoption. I was raising the point that if ICS was an
alternative
part to the plain/text part, that the average mail user would
have no way of adding the ICS Event / Task to his or her
non-Chandler calendar.
Since ICS is *important* and must be easily accessible from a
Chandler Mail Message I don't see how it could be an alternative
part.
I am curious, too, how many people will be bemused to find attachments
on their emails sent from Chandler. Hopefully preview will soon
give us
a group to survey!
Sincerely,
Jeffrey
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