Joe Francis wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henri
> Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Using <blockquote> as an indentation device is misguided (it says so in
> > the spec).
>
> It's not ideal, but it is the best we could do and support backwards
> compatibility with older, non-css aware mail clients. Would you have us
> use <ul>, like 4.x did?
You are sending __HTML__ not PDF! Backwards compatibility with what?
If I sent an indented paragraph, and the recipient's viewer did not indent
it, would that make my paragraph less of a paragraph?
HTML email is for communication, not art.
> At least <blockquote> is legal html.
Syntactically, yes.
One can write a lot of syntactically correct sentences, but that doesn't
necessarily mean they make sense.
>
> > I think <p style="margin-left: 4px;> is misguided also. If
> > the indentation has a special meaning, it should be expressed with a
> > paragraph class and a style sheet with a ruleset matching that class. If
> > it only a presentational thing, it should be expressed in a style sheet
> > with a ruleset matching regular paragraphs.
>
> Thats great for a dreamworld where everyone who received such mail would
> see what you expected them to see.
I think you just undermined your entire argument.
