Hi!
Holger Metzger wrote:
> Believe it or not I myself prefer mail/news Mozilla/4 style. I even
> filed an RFE (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86607). You
> might want to vote for it or file an RFE yourself.
Done.
> Anyways..., the vertical bar might look strange to you, but it's not in
> any way altering the plaintext (the "source") to HTML. As I said before
> how plaintext is displayed varies from system to system, from program to
> program.
I'm aware of that. Still, I don't want to see it. I want to see ">"s
where ">"s are, no vertical bar. Go on, call me a die-hard traditionalist.
;-)
> Much more important conformity to standards.
I agree.
> Another example: tin. Tin with colors enabled displays plaintext very
> differently from the "source". *bold* in bold, /italic/ in italic,
> _underline_ underlined (and the * / _ will not be displayed). And tin is
> IMHO on of the best newsreaders ever.
The version I used back when Hector was a pup didn't do that.
Anyway, Mozilla does (retaining the * and /), and that's a good
thing as far as I am concerned. Others might think differently
and want to disable that feature. My point being: let 'em!
[X] display *bold* and /italic/
[ ] display vertical bar as quote marker instead of ">"
[ ] enable format=flowed
Display plain text in ( ) fixed width font (o) variable width font
These options, the last one of which is already there but not working
properly, are all I'm asking for.
> Displaying plaintext so that everyone sees the *same* is virtually
> impossible.
I know. But I'd like to be able to specify what I want to see
of it. And that's rather close to what's in the message itself,
how it'd display in a text editor.
> But I agreee that Mozilla should be as flexible as possible in
> enabling/disabling settings.
More power to you! :-)
Yours,
Erik.
