WaltS48 wrote:
On 03/28/2016 04:28 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Ray_Net wrote:
[email protected] wrote on 28/03/2016 18:11:
Ray_Net wrote:
WaltS48 wrote on 27/03/2016 17:25:
Looking at the source of a message composed in HTML and only sent as
plain text, shows only plain text formatting.
Probably the reason the HTML formatting bar doesn't appear. To the
composition window it is a plain text message you are editing.
Yes, I have understood .. But this is stupid to not permit an HTML
modification of this mail, because normally the option say that I
compose in HTML.
I dont need that SM must convert a plaintext in html, I just need this
HTML bar.
Ah, I think that's something else which was discussed here. If you
start off composing in HTML, you can use Options > Format to change
the compose window to "Plain Text Only". You can then use Options >
Format to change back to a format including HTML.
If you start off composing in plain text (either if your default
format is plain text, or if you "edit as new" a plain text email),
then Options > Format menu is not there. Bug 78764
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78794> I think.
Why is this "bug" not corrected ?
Probably because no-one with the ability to do so has been bothered by
it enough to fix it. The options basically come down to:
- Fix it yourself
- Persuade or pay someone else to fix it
- Wait for someone else to do either of the above
Is it so difficult to present the
HTML-bar each time when the option is "Compose in HTML" ?
2016 - 2001 = 15 years without a correction :-(
If it's so easy, I'm sure you could submit a patch ;o)
However, the issue is not that the formatting toolbar isn't shown
"compose in HTML" is set. Display of the formatting toolbar depends
whether the message being composed is in plain text or HTML format,
which may not be the selected default (e.g. if shift-clicking on
compose/reply/forward, or using "edit as new" on a message in the
non-default format). As far as I can tell that works correctly. There
is no point showing the formatting toolbar if the current message is
plain text, even if the default is HTML.
The issue is that if the compose window starts off in plain text mode,
the Options > Format menu is missing so it's not possible to switch to
HTML mode.
However, Ray starts off with HTML composition, sends the message to a
recipient in plain text,
The message was sent in plain text, so that's how it's stored in the
"Sent" folder and that's what the composer starts off with using "edit
as new".
goes to the Send folder, finds the message,
right clicks and selects "Edit As New Message", because he wants to add
some HTML gadget to the same message and send it to another recipient as
HTML.
If the Options > Format menu wasn't missing, it would be easy to switch
back to HTML format and apply that formatting. i.e. the issue is that
the Options > Format menu is missing, not that the formatting bar should
be shown when editing a plain text email (which would be pointless,
since HTML formatting couldn't be applied to the plain text message anyway).
Since there isn't any HTML formatted content in the source of the first
sent message, the Format toolbar won't appear in the new composition
window.
Indeed. The message stored in the "Sent" folder is a record of the
message as it was actually sent. If it is converted to plain text on
sending, any HTML formatting is removed.
--
Mark.
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