I don't think so, Owen. I'd much rather listen to people bitch & whine about this. So entertaining. Almost as much fun as listening to people bitch & whine about Google killing off Reader<http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/03/google_reader_why_did_everyone_s_favorite_rss_program_die_what_free_web.html> .
--Doug On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > It is a bit humorous: the "What You See Is What I See" idea .. and its > little brother WYSIWYG, but there is also an interesting point to be > made. It seems to be _hard_ to obtain! > > This is one of the reasons, IMHO, that twitter is so popular. I've > started using it quite a bit simply because it _is_ so readable and > very fast to do so. And it definitely has the greatest info content > per sq. in. of any media I'm aware of. > > On thinking more about it, the chief problem I have with formatting in > email is that our various machines and their apps have absurdly > different ways of setting these things. > > So when I use GMail's web-mail system, it allows four text sizes, tiny > to huge. I have absolutely no idea how these translate to your > screen. I've resorted to creating images of email, sending it to the > sender, and asking "is this what you meant me to see"? and gotten a > horrified, Gawd No response. > > What I find is Silos of Usage: i.e. folks on Windows running Exchange > will agree between themselves. GMail-ers ditto. Mac mail.app-ers > too. Oh, and naturally Twitter folk. And naturally the Unformatted > Text folk, bless them. > > Maybe we should have an agreed upon style that we all share and a few > Windows, Mac, Linux hipsters transmit instructions on how to obtain > that style with each of the Silos? > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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