On 09 Jul 2002, it is alleged that Holger Metzger sauntered in to netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> Sebastian Schack wrote: > >> Hey, everybody. >> >> I just downloaded and installed Mozilla1.1alpha (under linux). >> Since I'm using Mail and News for quite some time now the first thing I >> did was telling mozilla that it should wrap my lines automatically after >> 72 characters. >> While typing the message this works pretty well, but when I download and >> read the message I posted a few seconds before from my newsserver, I >> have to see that mozilla wraps the text when "the screen is full". >> >> I tried to correct this but it doesn't get any better than this >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > See http://www.hmetzger.de/etips6.html#10 FWIW, I actually *like* f=f, altho' Holger's point that it could be troublesome at higher resolutions is well-taken. Mind, I'd *like* to be in the position of having this problem; 1024 x 768 on a 15" monitor just *isn't* enough screen real estate. . . . I'm not sure this needs to be exposed in the UI, but what I'm going to suggest might make it necessary: Make a Y/N option for something like 'Display plain-text messages using format="flowed"'; if 'No', then allow the user to display either as the message was set or to wrap at a user-chosen line length. Let me add that this seems a bit cumbersome, but that's about what I can come up with right now. . . . /b. -- Mozilla end-user questions should be directed to: snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.general snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.win32 snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.mac snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.unix Note that you need to have SSL enabled and the port set to 563.
