Stuart Ballard wrote:
>
> Daniel Bratell wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> It's inconsistent:
> - It's different than what I'm used to (without being "better" - if
> you're used to "> ", the blue line gives no gain)
It's better becasuse it's clearer. It immediately indicates the quoted
area, while it takes me a few more moments to distinguish the area
quoted by ">" (Ok, so I'm "trained" by now, but it took me a while to
get used to when I got on the Internet). And how does the fact that
"it's different" show inconsitency?
> - If it isn't used for non-flowed, then it's used inconsistently
It's used for everything. I just tested on flowed and non-flowed
messages, on over 10 different messages, old and new, including messages
in foreign language encodings.
> - If it *is* used for non-flowed, it can cause loss of information (and
> not just if the UA makes a mistake - consider a mathematical or
> programming comment that includes a statement like x > 3, with
> wordwrapping turned on)
I tried posting a message containing various combinations of x > 3 (x>3
x> 3, etc) and other stuff, and every one of them came thru exactly
right. I also tried posting the same thing from a non-flowed (fixed)
client and all of my x > 3's came through. Try it yourself.
So such misintepretation mistakes would be rather rare.
> It's ugly:
> - The blue is too bright. Is the color configurable, at least?
Blue? Perhaps you're using the modern theme. I'm using the classic theme
and the bar is nice neutral grey. And of course, you can just change the
CSS style for it and make it the color you want.
- Oleg
