Re: Pref - character for quoted text

[Ben Bucksch]

Jonas Sicking wrote:

> Dylan Schiemann wrote:
> 
>> Ben Bucksch wrote:
>> 
>>> Somebody suggested using char(something) instead of url(animage).
>> 
>> That somebody was me.  I was suggesting it as a proposal, not as something
>> that presently exists....
> 
IC. But I guess, content(">") would work.

>>> 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.
>> 
I just remember: The information of being a quote *is* there: The quotes 
are all in a <blockquote type=cite>. Its default style is just 
overridden based on the prefs. During copy, the style is not copied, 
i.e. we get the raw <blockquote type=cite again>.

> 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.

That's how it is. Just that we don't use MailML, but HTML.