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


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