Matthew Thomas wrote:
>I think it should be a checkbox in the composition window itself -- as
>it is in Hotmail and Yahoo Mail -- which the user needs to turn on in
>order to see the formatting toolbar. (Of course, we should clean up the
>dreadfulness of the current prefs UI too.)
>
Yes, I agree.
Hiding the formatting toolbar is no problem, actually that works already.
Changing from HTML to plaintext composition rules is more difficult. But
should be possible nevertheless, with the necessary amount of work. Just
that nobodoy volunteered.
>>>bulleted lists or variable indentation levels.
>>>
>>But can we agree that there are enough users that want this?
>>
>Not enough to warrant constantly putting up an alert about converting it
>into plain text, no.
>
Yes, I agree that the dialog should appear much less often. There are
ideas about that, too, e.g. content-negotiation / UA-sniffing (bug 27933).
