On 11/4/2000 9:10 PM, "Timothy Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/5/00 3:40 PM, "Dan Crevier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Paul wrote:
>>
>>> You can't set anything as HTML
>> There's not really an easy way to support this such
>> that the text is easily manipulated via AppleScript. If it returned the raw
>> HTML text, then you'd have to parse the HTML to add text. There's a styled
>> text type, but it's not something you can manipulate from AppleScript.
>
> How about adding an option "as html" to the get and set text verbs? It is
> easy enough to parse html, and this would solve a lot of other problems to,
> regarding creating html messages.
And, "as unicode html", of course. :-) This isn't totally easy though. You
go from being able to just take text & more text to having to parse out the
</body> tag and quote any text you want to insert ( & -> &, etc), and
then stick it back it. Is this something people would really do?
Dan
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