And i was joking. ron
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Xavi Drudis Ferran <[email protected]>wrote: > I hesitate to make this thread longer... > > Just my 2c. > > HTML - please no. > > It's bloated for this purpose and I've seen it (outside this list) > introduce costly errors because of that. It brings new features that are > not needed and more complex to master (I mean taking into account > efficiency, compatibility, accessibility, etc.). It's useful for web, not > for email. The fact that someone can write perfectly compliant, accessible > and pleasing websites does not mean this someone will spend the same effort > in every email message. HTML knowledge should be no requirement to > participate in this list, so some users may be unaware of possibly pitfalls > in their HTML messages. > Also, users of text only email readers need not be excluded. > > UTF-8 - yes, any standarised encoding, but UTF-8 is fine. > > I don't like changing the names of other people. I like to copy them > verbatim. There's people all over the world in this list. So I think the > feature of being able to codify many of the characters in the world is > useful. The fact that communication is in English (I wouldn't require it > either) and my name can be written correctly in ASCII does not mean that > everybody has to have names in ASCII. > > I think these and possibly other arguments are stronger than message size. > But I'm not implying that plain text vs HTML wastes the same space as ASCII > vs UTF-8 for messages in English. > > Thanks. > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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