My girlfriend, who is sighted, absolutely hates plain text txt email messages. She says they are much harder to read. They are much less visually appealing.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Nov 2014, at 13:03, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's correct, HTML tags indicate line breaks and paragraphs, thus there is > no need to encode that information into the message as single or double > line-breaks. The idea of using plain text in this way, however, while it may > certainly work for clients which naturally wrap lines, does not for those > which don't. As I said, there is a standard for doing the thing properly > (called format=flowed, which you may Google if you're motivated) but Apple > and Microsoft intentionally ignore it. > > I know for a fact that (at least some) Windows versions of Outlook and > Outlook Express do the thing properly; I really can't understand why the Mac > versions don't. And of course format=flowed originated with Eudora, on the > Mac. > > Of the textmode clients, only alpine has a workaround for this breakage; mutt > doesn't, and neither do most newsreaders. > > Cheers, > Sabahattin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
