Hi!
Holger Metzger wrote:
> Christopher Jahn wrote:
> [blue bar]
>>Except that it isn't. Many of us despise the blue bar.
>>I want PLAINTEXT, dammit. Gimme!
>
> But it *is* plaintext. Even if you use the HTML composer inn Mozilla the
> message will be send out in plaintext as long as there are no html
> formattings in the text (unlike Outlook Express which always sends in
> html when html is used). This is the way Mozilla treated HTML in
> mail/news for ages.
But what's so hard about wanting to *read* mail the way it was
sent, and *write* mail the way it will be sent? What's so strange
about wanting to see every line break, every quote char precisely
where it actually was typed, and wanting to be able to control
them completely in a reply?
I don't want software that "does the right thing" for me, adds
newlines, displays blue bars where ">"s are and whatnot. That can't
be so hard can it?
> The blue bar is a man characteristic of any f=f mail client. Eudora for
> example uses the blue bar. They too use some sort of CSS stylesheet for
> displaying plaintext messages. It's just a way of *displaying* the quote
> characters differently,
Just a way of displaying, but some of us don't like it. Make it
configurable and I won't bitch about it, no more than I bitch about
Netscape 4's ability to write and display HTML mail messages (even
though I hate them). I can turn it off, so it's okay.
Speaking of which, how about a way to turn off HTML messages displaying
as such? I'd like to see the HTML source code instead.
An option to have *all* messages display in the way that the
View Message Source function does would be the ticket for me...
except for attachments, that is.
> How plaintext is displayed is completely dependant on the OS/newsreader
> someone is using. People use different fonts, different font-sizes,
> different colors and so on.
Correct. But the way I'd like to have it display (namely, with all
the chars and line breaks untouched, and in a proportional font)
isn't currently possible with Mozilla. And that's not how it should
be. Hey, 4.x can do it! Do you really want me to stick with
stone-age Netscape just because someone doesn't want another checkbox
in the options dialog?
Yours,
Erik.
