Re: The Bat 2.00 and support for HTML

2003-10-01 Thread Deborah W 
On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, 2:19:19 AM, Gerrit Kiers wrote:

GK> I didn't really follow the development of version 2, but I surely
GK> picked up "support for HTML" all along the long road leading to the
GK> release of version 2. To my great surprise this support is really
GK> very limited. Too limited in my opinion, and it does not even
GK> function well.

I agree with this. It's not even possible to cut & paste html into an
email using v2's html editor.

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Deborah

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Re: The Bat 2.00 and support for HTML

2003-10-01 Thread Gerrit Kiers 
 Hello batters,

Noticed I forgot my question: Can anyone tell me what the further
goals for HTML support are?

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Best regards,
Gerrit Kiers

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The Bat 2.00 and support for HTML

2003-10-01 Thread Gerrit Kiers 
Hello all,

I didn't really follow the development of version 2, but I surely
picked up "support for HTML" all along the long road leading to the
release of version 2. To my great surprise this support is really very
limited. Too limited in my opinion, and it does not even function
well. Now, I personally never use formatted e-mail (I use The Bat! 
;-)), but I there are several instances when HTML format does add
quality to the message created. 

For one: I maintain a scientific NGO's mailinglist and for obvious
reasons a well structured HTML formatted e-mail is superior to any
text message (And here you might feel provoked ;-)). So we do use HTML
and our current implementation of it with The Bat! includes several
work-arounds. It seems that with the release of version 2 we'll have
to live with these work-arounds a little longer, since replying,
forwarding or redirecting an HTML formatted message does not preserve
the original HTML format (as it should be IMO, and even included in
the sorting office as an option).

(For another: Kids...)

Also the current HTML editing capacities are unsatisfactory. Simply
from a general point of view: I cannot use TAB to align, I think
supporting of (un)numbered lists is basic (but currently lacking) and
not supporting alignment on the level of a paragraph seems
unsatisfactory to me as well.

And what seems to be a a bug to me (or at least a bad implementation):
My boilerplate includes e-mail addresses and Internet addresses in the
form of  and . If I change
between the different message formats while composing my e-mail, these
tags are deleted by The Bat!.

--
Best regards,
Gerrit Kiers

 Using The Bat! v1.62r on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1



Current version is 2.00.6 | "Using TBUDL" information:
http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html