>> Seems strangely illogical that you can't just turn off HTML displaying
>> altogether.
>
> That's why MS calls it RTF (Rich Text Format), and wants it to be yet known
> as yet another MS innovation and standard... or something like that.
Clever of them to come up with that RTF thing years before HTML came into
vogue. ;-)
> Seriously, all MS stuff defaults to try to force as much HTML crap upon you
> - which might be nifty for the lowest common denominator of their users, but
> really annoying if you're the one that has to deal with it - as cool as the
> Mac BU of MS is, they are still subservient to certain marketing
> considerations, I'm sure....
>
> ....unfortunately.
Oh, get a grip. It's hardly a "certain marketing considerations"
conspiracy...
If you implement a feature, the feature is non-destructive, and there's a
way to disable it, you almost always want to enable the feature by default.
Otherwise:
1) Your old users never notice that it's there.
2) Your new users also never notice.
3) Your newbie users certainly don't notice it.
And all three call technical support to find out how to do whatever it is.
If it's enabled, and the clueful users don't like it, they'll disable it.
If the newbie users overuse it, they'll get yelled at enough that they just
might disable it. But the vendor doesn't usually have to field a technical
support call. 'cause everyone who yells at them usually gives fairly
explicit instructions. ;-)
And frankly, I figure that <http://BlueMountain.com> or one of the other
idiot e-cards companies would sue MS (again!) if they disabled HTML display
by default. And the Justice Department is just stupid enough to go along
with it (again!).
mikel
PS: Just be glad Adobe didn't get their way. Then we'd be getting *.pdf
attachments all over the place.
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