Oleg Rekutin wrote:
> 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.
Um, it's only used for everything if you have the graphical display
turned on. I turned it off in my prefs, and it only affects non-flowed
plain text. Everything else still gets the bar. To me, that's inconsistent.
barney
