Hi Tony, On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, at 20:03:11 [GMT +0000] (which was 1:03 PM where I live) you wrote: TB> I'm going to make one last comment on this subject. For years most TB> people on this list have in the past voiced *very* strong opinions TB> about keeping The Bat html free... Where are they all now? They've TB> all jumped ship and are now sitting firmly on the fence and it TB> appears, I am the only one who is keeping true to my original TB> convictions.
Nope. I still don't want HTML support either, I'm just tired of always arguing about it. It's just so unbelievably simple to double-click the HTML attachment and bring it up in a browser that it's so completely beyond my understanding why people are apparently to lazy to do it. That's what browsers are designed to do. Now, TB is a for profit application. That means their time is money (whose isn't). We've had TB users in the past who were visually disabled. If RITLabs is going to do HTML, then they gotta do it right (to support them as well), that means TB *must* markup with at least current WCAG 1.0 and Section 508 standards. That means it has to be fully XHTML 1.0 compliant. That means RITLabs is going to be busy for a very long time supporting all those standards (hey, I already know how hard it is. One page took me a week to build). The only other option is to put the onus on the user to write their own markup. That way the user gets blamed for non-compliance rather than RITLabs. But, then the whining starts about why they have to hand code their HTML. XHTML, WCAG, CSS, Section 508 are moving targets. RITLabs is going to be so busy trying to keep TB current to those standards, they might as well write a dang browser instead of an e-mail client. TB is an e-mail client. Let all the browsers worry about keeping current with wildly out of control standards for XHTML, CSS, WCAG and Section 508. I want e-mail not a webpage. And before anyone says I must not have to deal with HTML e-mail, I do. I get catalog pages from ecost, Sportsmans Guide, Codeproject, Orbitz, Wells Fargo Banking, and that's just at home. I get tons of HTML e-mail from people I deal with at work too. But I'm not too lazy to double-click an HTML attachment to see the e-mail when I need to in an application designed to view HTML markup, and can handle the current moving target standards. Happy Tony? Now you drug me into this! :-) -- Leif -:- TB Lists Moderator -:- PGP Key ID 0x7CD4926F Tagline of the day: 8 out of 10 people suffer from hemorrhoids, the other two enjoy it. Roguemoticons - http://www.PCWize.com/thebat PCWSmileys - http://www.PCWize.com/thebat/pcwsmileys.php ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.0.9.1 Deep Alpha | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
