Dylan Schiemann wrote:
> Ben Bucksch wrote:
> > Somebody suggested using char(something) instead of url(animage). Is
> > that possible?
>
> That somebody was me. I was suggesting it as a proposal, not as something
> that presently exists.... a way that css could be extended in css3 that
was
> different than a pseudo-class and maybe more widely appropriate.
>
> > Observing the font size of the quoted text would be good.
> >
> > Also, as akk already mentioned, using background shows problems during
> > copy. In the clipboard, there won't be any indication that the text was
> > quoted.
>
> It would be nice to have copy/paste retain css information in mozilla...
some
> sort of "Paste Special".
That is IMO the best way to solve this. And that would require somethat like
a char(">") for the paste to actually paste ">" characters (unlike having an
image looking like a >).
However I don't really understand why having ">" to show quotes is that
important to people? I personally love the bars and all the other cool stuff
that the text->html does. But I still think this is an interesting
discussion.
What I'd ideally see was that there was some kind of "MailML" that when
displayed in MailNews shows bars (or whatever else could be done in css) for
quotes and when converted to text (to be pasted in some textonly place)
would use ">" to quote.
IMHO the char() thing could still be useful but not very important. However
I think that there should be some way to define the font used:
body { background: char("My Cool Site", Verdana, Serif); }
or
body { background: char("My Cool Site"); background-font: Verdana, Serif; }
> > I istill believe that creating a :line-start pseudo-class or similar in
> > Gecko would be the best solution, in part because I think, it would be
> > generally useful, i.e. should be part of CSS3.
>
> I really think that generated content is the wrong approach here. The
> content, whether is be > or vertical lines, is really only a style to
indicate
> that it is someone else's quote. That is why I suggested a style that
behaved
> like a background to the margin or padding. By adding content in such a
way
> that it would be added to the document, it becomes a more permanent part
of
> the content, which seems wrong to me.
Good point.
/ Jonas Sicking
