On 12/7/03 10:00 PM, "Entourage:mac Talk"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Perhaps if all email programs had agreed to adopt RTF for formatted text we
> could make a more clear-cut differentiation on how to treat those vs. HTML
> on a message-by-message basis. But many email programs, not just Entourage,
> use HTML for simple text formatting.

What's needed is an email version of HTML, mayhaps EM-ML? A subset of HTML
that centers on basic text formatting. (I really should intro an RFC one of
these days) So you get things like proper link creation,
bold/italic/underline, fonts, alignment, sub/superscript, lists, fractions
and text colors. 

No, I don't see a need for background colors. Maybe horizontal rules. No
tables, (at that point, you may as well just use a word processor). I also
don't' think there's a need for embedded images. But there's a real need for
proper text formatting in emails.

john

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- Italian proverb


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