In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
 Ben Bucksch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> J.B. Moreno wrote:
> >> And does it come with some default that would work for most people?
> >
> Well, it's a *user*Content.css - the point is that you can do whatever 
> you imagine, only limited by the (rich) HTML structure that libmime 
> outputs for messages and by the capabilities of CSS. The problem boils 
> down to the lack of documentation (i.e. my badly maintained webpage). 
> Patches (or new text) for the webpage is welcome :-).

Yes, it is *user*Content.css -- but that doesn't mean that the standard
distribution shouldn't install it by default, with some sensible
values.

I (at least) think of it as a type of preference file -- and I think
that's liable to be a common view.  If it is, then it should be
installed, with defaults to what most people will want.

And this is a great example of that, most people *will* want to have
quoted text colored, and they won't want to have start from scratch
editing a .css file in order to turn it on, let alone have to read a
bunch of documentation before discovering that it is even possible.

(One of the problems with mail/news is that for most people their first
introduction to it is via Outlook Express, so what they are looking for
is something that does what they like in OE, but doesn't do whatever
they don't like in OE -- they don't know what else is possible.  If you
rely upon the user finding out about features like this, you're going
to have a long wait).

-- 
J.B. Moreno

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