Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-12 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mitja, @12 June 2002, 10:44:58 +0200 (09:44 UK time) Mitja Perko wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Will there be a feature to ignore by default, but load on request by let say clicking on the image while holding shift or

RE: New HTML engine?

2002-06-12 Thread Weaven, ChristopherX
Hello Marck, It will be in V2. It will *not* be a global option. It will prompt, one image at a time like: Retrieve remote image file 'gotaliveone.spamharvest.sillypicture.jpg' now? for every picture. Please, if you can, try to convince RITLabs people to make it a global option. Just

RE: New HTML engine?

2002-06-12 Thread Weaven, ChristopherX
Hi, Please, if you can, try to convince RITLabs people to make it a global option. Just a while ago I received and HTML e-mail with some 20 GIFs. It would be quite upsetting to have to answer NO 20 times. I agree, having to click NO 20 times can become very frustrating! True,

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-12 Thread Miguel A. Urech
Hello ChristopherX, I agree, having to click NO 20 times can become very frustrating! I think maybe you click click yes or no just the once and then it does all the remaing pictures for the mail. The reason I say that, is why would you want to downlaod just selected images? How do you

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-12 Thread Miguel A. Urech
Hello Marck, Having said that, it may be the RITlabs will bow to pressure and have a 'Yes, Yes (all), No, No (all)' dialog box. I still think that a 'Yes (all)' option exposes naive users to hidden dangers. But that would be asked at least once per message and, like I have said in my reply

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-12 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Miguel, @12 June 2002, 22:00:51 +0200 (21:00 UK time) Miguel A. Urech wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Having said that, it may be the RITlabs will bow to pressure and have a 'Yes, Yes (all), No, No (all)' dialog box. I still

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-12 Thread Miguel A. Urech
Hello Marck, Sorry to confuse. There will be a global ignore all option (don't even *think* about downloading)... Great news! Thanks :) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v1.60c Current Ver: 1.60q

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-12 Thread Miguel A. Urech
Hello Marck, And I'm sure I said that there *will* a global No option, but not a global Yes... ,-=[ [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]=- Sorry to confuse. There will be a global ignore all option (don't even *think* about downloading) but if you want to see them at all,

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED], @11 June 2002, 21:12:16 -0500 (03:12 UK time) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw that a new HTML engine is listed as being part of the new version, but I just tried it and nothing seems

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Jernej Simoni
Hello Mitja, 11. junij 2002, 12:17:31, you wrote: MP You detect by extension which image it should be, try to display it if MP you can, otherwise leave it alone. That's not the problem. The problem is, that these images can be used for tracking - spammer can embed such image in text (with

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Roelof Otten
Hello Mitja, On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:54:46 +0200GMT (11-6-02, 13:54 +0200GMT, where I live), you wrote: MP Maybe one could have an icon to click and the images would get loaded. MP Or even filter enabling/disabling loading. I currently miss images, MP because I am subscribed to a newsletter that

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Jonathan Angliss
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, Roelof Otten wrote... You realize of course that when TB shows on-line images, you'll need to go on-line too. It's just that it's now a conscious decision, whereas otherwise it would be an automatic connection. Plus you have the issue that image files may not

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Jonathan Angliss
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, Mitja Perko wrote... This is wrong belief to my knowledge. You do not go executing images. You read them and try to display them. If format is not right then component for reading the image will report it and you will skip the image. Images must have a valid header

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Mitja, On Tuesday, June 11, 2002 at 5:16:44 PM you wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (at least in part): You realize of course that when TB shows on-line images, you'll need to go on-line too. It's just that it's now a conscious decision, whereas otherwise it would be

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Jonathan Angliss
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, Peter Palmreuther wrote... JA Then how would you explain viruses spreading via the .jpg and JA .gif formats? Because the wide spread usage of Outlook and Outlook Express?!?!?!?! Indeed What happens is: this object is announced as an 'image' by a

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Jonathan Angliss
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, Daniel van Rooijen [CopyCats] wrote... I've never heard of that and I don't think it's true; these formats have no executable code inside, and browsers make no attempt to execute them. However, what does exist is filenames with a double extension, such as

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Jonathan, On Tuesday, June 11, 2002 at 6:10:28 PM you wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (at least in part): Disable the 'Hide file extensions for known file types' in your explorer settings (not Internet Explorer!!! Explorer ... the file manager!) and you'll see: none

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Jonathan, On Tuesday, June 11, 2002 at 6:19:56 PM you wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (at least in part): JA Guess I need to give an example... Take... erm... SubSeven. Has a JA small program that 'encapsulates' files... Run it onto a .jpg file it JA increases the .jpg

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Jonathan Angliss
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, Peter Palmreuther wrote... JA Guess I need to give an example... Take... erm... SubSeven. Has a JA small program that 'encapsulates' files... Run it onto a .jpg file it JA increases the .jpg file by maybe 300kb... file extension is *still* JA .jpg (no hidden

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Daniel, On Tuesday, June 11, 2002 at 6:48:34 PM you wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (at least in part): DvRC I sympathize with your plight of text-only e-mail, and I'd like to add DvRC that the true netpurist will only use a plain, fixed-width font. :-) You've three

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daniel, @11 June 2002, 18:48:34 +0200 (17:48 UK time) Daniel van Rooijen [CopyCats] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... So, if an HTML attachment is delivered with local images and all, I think TB should show them. Animated

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Jernej Simoni
Hello Jonathan, 11. junij 2002, 16:05:21, you wrote: JA last thing you want is for JA TB! to wander off, download and execute an image from an infected site Displaying images is very different from running programs. If The Bat would download a program instead of image file, there would have

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Miguel A. Urech
Hello Marck, It will be in V2. It will *not* be a global option. It will prompt, one image at a time like: Retrieve remote image file 'gotaliveone.spamharvest.sillypicture.jpg' now? for every picture. Please, if you can, try to convince RITLabs people to make it a global option. Just a while

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-11 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Miguel, @11 June 2002, 22:31:42 +0200 (21:31 UK time) Miguel A. Urech wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please, if you can, try to convince RITLabs people to make it a global option. Just a while ago I received and HTML e-mail

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-10 Thread Allie C Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Kurgan [K] wrote: ... K Between ZoneAlarm and Norton A/V 2002, I'm not worried about K anything harmful getting in. That's like a policeman with a bulletproof vest on, going out to get himself

Re: New HTML engine?

2002-06-10 Thread Dierk Haasis
Hello Kurgan! On Tuesday, June 11, 2002 at 4:12:16 AM you wrote: I saw that a new HTML engine is listed as being part of the new version, but I just tried it and nothing seems different, at least it's not doing what a typical html engine would. Is this lack of function