Re: Supporting real paragraphs by default

[Matthew Thomas]

Joe Francis wrote:
>...
> Mail Compose is used much more by NS6 and mozilla users, so we
> concentrated on getting the behavior right for these folks.  These
> folks expect a single return press to correspond to a single new line. 
> They also expect to be able to click on any empty line and begin
> typing there.
>...

Except, of course, for the bazillions of people using Hotmail and Yahoo
Mail in Internet Explorer 5.x, where (last time I checked) Return
creates a new paragraph and Shift+Return creates a new line. Those
people can handle it just fine.

Are there stats showing that Mozilla and Netscape users are less
intelligent (on average) than Hotmail and Yahoo Mail users? If not, why
are we assuming that Mozilla and Netscape users can't handle a behavior
which Hotmail and Yahoo Mail users have no trouble with?

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Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla user interface QA
Mozilla UI decisions made within 48 hours, or the next one is free