At 9:31 PM -0500 3/17/2011, Sean Carroll wrote:
A long time ago, I thought the problem with rich text/HTML mail (synonymous terms?)
Rich text is text marked up with HTML.
was how mail servers handled it.
Never had anything to do with the mail servers. Mail servers simply pass along messages. They do not munge the message body in any way. The disposition / interpretation of the HTML codes has always been done in the mail cilent.
If that's no longer true, and if one can (as Bruce outlined) set Mail (and probably another real email client as well) to display all email as plain text, then I confess to being befuddled as to why the subject of rich text evokes such passion.
It's the passion of the results. The recipients get frustrated because they cannot read the messages. And the originators get frustrated because they get fewer or no replies.
Too bad there's not such a thing as reasonably-well-off text. Something that could allow for a few useful things like italics and bold type without letting in smileys and all the rest.
The original idea of rich text was that it would support only simple markup, a limited number of tags. Then, as I understand it, MS got involved and suddenly it was full-on HTML with all sorts of MS specific malformations and such.
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