On 9/10/02 11:23 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 9/10/02 9:09 AM, "Omar Shahine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> James Tummins wrote:
>> 
>>> I've received some rich text messages from Apple Mail users that seem only
>>> partially formatted. The source of the text contains:
>>> 
>>>    Here's a photo of my dog,
>>>    <italic><color><param>FFFF,00F7,1D56</param>Brandy
>>>    </color></italic>.
>>> 
>>> The italics appear, but the color does not. Is this a question of HTML
>>> rendering standards?
>>>  
>>> 
>> That doesn't lool like HTML to me. The <param> is a give away. Mail.app
>> doesn't do HTML as far as I know, only RTF. I know that Entourage has
>> limited support for rendering RTF. Dan knows more though since he
>> implimented RTF.
> 
> I don't think Dan's ever done any such thing! Not RTF by name. Of course
> "simple" HTML _looks like_ rtf but it isn't - it's HTML. I think Dan was
> involved in helping create the WASTE an WASTE 2 text engines that Entourage
> and many other Carbon apps use.

Mail.app uses text/enriched, just like NeXTMail did (see RFC 1896).
Text/enriched predated HTML, and Mail.app is the only modern client I know
that generates it. Entourage has a rudimentary text/enriched->text/html
converter which can handle things like <italic>, but doesn't handle more
complex text/enriched tags that user <param>.

This stuff is separate from WASTE, which we use as our text engine. We use a
modified WASTE 1.3, BTW.

Dan




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