I need to take back my former suggestion. The more I think about it, Growl notifications are supposed to be unobtrusive. Adding in rich text and other formatting is just asking for abuse. I could possibly see a use in allowing urls being useful but just barely. (file:/// http:// itms:// etc)
On Nov 11, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Helena Smith wrote: > > Chris, > > There is a variant: add one additional field: "richDescription". So > programmer will call Growl with both fields filled: > "description"(required) and "richDescription"(optional). A user can > choose preferred display method in Growl preferences (or it will be > automatically detected some way). You can use something like BBcode > and a possibility to load images from URL's and resources (because > small important images can improve overall usability of application > which uses Growl). > > But it is not so complex (and not so "right") as Joshua suggests. > > Maybe it will be better to create a content+theme (as Joshua > suggests), with default "Plain text" theme which will render all > content as a plain text w/o formatting. I think it'll be really cool! > > On Nov 11, 8:30 pm, "Christopher Forsythe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To add to that, basically if we could ensure that notifications are >> going to >> be readable no matter which display --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
