And it came to pass that Ben Bucksch wrote:
> Christopher Jahn wrote:
>
>>Shucks, anyone else would simply display plain old text.
>>Y'know as in PLAINtext?
>>
> "plaintext" is the format in which the msg gets *sent*, not
> necessarily how it is composed or displayed in Mozilla or
> any other mailer.
And this, of course, is the chief flaw in Mozilla's mail/news
UI. Oh, and that stupid bar that sangs the header out of the
message.
>Or do you see the plain SMTP/POP/IMAP
> commands in Mozilla's UI?
As stated many times, I detest the UI, and thus use other
products until such a time as a decent UI is instituted.
>
> E.g. in Mozilla and Outlook*, you usually compose in HTML,
> but you may send in plaintext. What's done here is the
> logical other way around: recieved as plaintext, displayed
> as HTML-like.
LOGICAL would be to see and send plaintext if that's what you
prefer. My current client displays plaintext as plaintext, and
sends plaintext. THAT's logical - not the current Mozilla UI.
>
> As for format=flowed (which is also a form of "text/plain",
> and a quite good at that), the HTML composer, including
> these blue bars, is actually the only reasonable way to
> compose it.
Except that it isn't. Many of us despise the blue bar.
I want PLAINTEXT, dammit. Gimme!
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
My father was a good woman.
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