On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 21:30:26 +0100, Oliver Sturm wrote:
[....]
> My experience is simply that users don't care to be informed. That's
> why so many of them use Microsoft software, that doesn't comply to any
> standards at all.
> So, what I say is just the following: If a user has (in my eyes) the
> perfect email client, one that doesn't support variable width fonts,
> no rich text, no html, and always breaks lines correctly at 76 chars
> (you _might_ argue about that one ;), she will write perfect emails
> all the time.
> Give the same user Netscape (again, just an example) and three days
> later she will have it configured to send mails in 13 1/2 pt Tahoma
> red bold to everyone around. All her mails will generally be on one
> line only, so quotation is real fun. If you ask why all that, she
> doesn't know. She also has no idea what she does might affect anyone
> else.
I'm particularly against the concept of denying features because
ignorant users may abuse them, or excessively facilitating the user
the the point where the very facilitants become a hindrance to others.
This is pretty much the MS way that we speak so much against.
If variable width font support would be useful for many, implement the
thing. Just make sure that fixed width font support is maintained.
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