Hello there,
after introducing the new component for the message editor, may I recall the
request to properly use the <blockquote> tag to enclose quotes instead of
building complicated tables for it, which no other email client can deal with.
The first step is indispensable: to display <blockquote>'d sections as such
- at least with a left margin and possibly a vertical bar on the left. See bug
tracker issue #1216. This is an absolute must.
I once had the embarassing case for me that in an e-mail exchange, I got a
message which quoted some text from my previous message, which were tagged with
a <blockquote> and differed from the text of the sender by only 1 additional
margin by one space character, hardly visible. I took the quoted text by me as
having been written by my correspondent, and created an embarassement for me by
responding this way.... A proper presentation of the <blockquote>'d text would
have avoided this.
The second step is to replace using <table><tr><td>quoting in The
Bat!</td></tr></table> with <blockquote>quoting in The Bat!</blockquote> which
is much simpler and easer to handle in re-re-quotes. See bug tracker issue
#1217.
See https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_blockquote.asp on the <blockquote>
tag.
See this example from the above mentioned message of a simple <blockquote>
re-quoting a <table> formatted quoted by The Bat! in my message my
correspondent replied to:
===============
<blockquote cite="mid:814777889.20151217162...@willms-edv.de"
type="cite">
<title>Re: Papyrus Autor 8 ist da</title>
<span style=" font-family:'Cambria'; font-size: 12pt;">Guten Tag
Ulli Ramps,<br>
<br>
 danke, daà Sie immer noch an mich denken (oder wenigstens Ihre
Datenbank tut es), und für die Info zu Papyrus Autor 8. <br>
<br>
am Donnerstag, 17. Dezember 2015 um 00:07 schrieben Sie:<br>
<br>
</span>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="2" bgcolor="#0000ff"><br>
</td>
<td>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<ul style="text-indent: 0px; margin-left: 40px;
list-style-position: outside; list-style-type:
disc;">
<li class="rvps0"><span style="
font-family:'cambria'; font-size:
12pt;">Verbesserter
<b>eBook</b>-Export mit sofortiger
<b>Vorschau</b>.</span></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
<br>
<span style=" font-family:'Cambria'; font-size: 12pt;"> Â Â Das
interessiert mich. Produziert das das EPUBs? </span></blockquote>
Ja.<br>
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And how a simply <blockquote> of my text in the same message looked like:
======================
<blockquote cite="mid:814777889.20151217162...@willms-edv.de"
type="cite"><span style=" font-family:'Cambria'; font-size: 12pt;">Version
2 oder 3 oder wahlweise? </span></blockquote>
Nein, V.2. V.3 hat noch zu geringe Verbreitung unter den Readern.<br>
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Please do something ...
One caveat: This requires to implement means to split a <blockquote> into
two, to recreate the parameters of the opening <blockquote> and to properly
separate other block elements which might become separated by the splitting of
the blockquote element, e.g. a <p> element.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Lüko Willms
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