on 5/2/01 6:22 PM, Dan Crevier at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 2/4/01 1:41 PM, "John W. Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 2/3/01 22:56, "Dan Crevier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Apple uses a different standard, text/enriched. Entourage can do a
>>> reasonable job displaying text/enriched.
>>
>> Good grief...I haven't had to worry about text/enriched since
>> a) I began ignoring Cyberdog (when Apple dropped future support for
>> OpenDoc); and
>> b) Eudora dropped text/enriched support.
>>
>> [It took a while before Cyberdog and Eudora spoke the same form of
>> text/enriched.]
>>
>> There's no doubt still an RFC around for it, so Apple can claim to be
>> following standards, but...it seems an odd choice in a world which has
>> settled on the awful HTML mail as the format in which to annoy recipients.
>
> Maybe because it was leading rich email standard back with NextMail was
> written.
Personally I think it is far more useful for building informative emails.
The way I think of it, the ultimate email format would be similar in feature
set to a good word processor, and Eudora & Cyberdog proved that this was a
lot more achievable with text/enriched. Anybody who was on the Cyberdog
news group who remembers Mary Grimsley's messages will agree. Years later
in Entourage, we can't create messages like that. I think we only ever
wound up with html mail because Netscape was handling both web browsing and
email, and it was a lot simpler for them to use the html rending engine they
already had, than to write a new rendering engine for email.
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Peter Gort
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