Daniel Bratell wrote:
>
> format=flowed mails are just ordinary text/plain mails which stores some
> information about line breaks and quoting level by following some
> conventions laid out in RFC 2646. (Home exercise, without reading the
> RFC, look at the mail source and try to figure out in what way it differ
> from a normal text/plain non-format=flowed mail)
More interesting results...
When I view message source, I see > for both non- and format=flowed. The
only difference in the headers is this one little thing. I know, of
course, that doesn't mean there isn't something else back there that I
can't see.
> The problem is that we presently can't preserve this information in the
> compose window without using the vertical bar.
The compose window? This seems to use my prefs for plain text and not
flowed, so I don't quite understand how this relates to the view window.
Sorry if I'm dense about all this. While I can accept the fact that
there may be some technical difficulties, I don't have to like it, do I? :)
> On the other hand, could someone tell us _why_ they hate the vertical
> bar? It would be most interesting to know, so that we can make the
> message display better.
I find it distracting. Was that maybe the whole point? And I don't like
the fact that it's used inconsistently. Plus, in some responses I've
received, the bar has been out of whack, possibly misinterpretting
something in the message body, like a series of ">" in the beginning of
a line that was not intended as quoted text (turning off graphical
display corrected this). In viewing html mail, there is usually enough
other sludge so it doesn't matter much. And format=flowed doesn't work
for me personally unless I keep the mail window fairly narrow. Those
long wrapped lines can be difficult to read. But that is something else
altogether...
>
> /Daniel
Maybe I should try to hack up my chrome so view message source
automagically fires up when I read a plain text message, or at least add
something to my mail toolbar for it. That's the wonderful thing about
mozilla, letting us hackers do stuff like that. I just wish I was a
*real* programmer so I could "fix" this for you. :)
barney
