Hi David,
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:55:09 -0700GMT (15/09/2000, 03:55 +0800GMT),
David Tod Sigafoos wrote under a rather weird and non-descrptive
subject:
MDP>>> The Bat is the best e-mail client there is. Period. HTML is not for
MDP>>> e-mail - it is for presentation.
DTS> And why shouldnt email be presentable?
Email is a medium to communicate facts and ideas. A presentation is a
sales tool. See: Powerpoint.
An email becomes presentable by using sensible paragraphs and so on;
the stuff our elders learned at school. I understand single-paragraphs
going over one page, or email all written in caps, are not
presentable; neither are those that heavily use colours, bold/italics,
little pictures and different font sizes. These things distract. I
keep telling my staff that those little thingies are for private
email, or for special announcements ("Our office will be closed for
Chinese New Year from.. to...").
DTS> What is it about HTML that scares people so much.
Visual noise, bandwidth increased by some 150%.
DTS> I cant understand the bandwidth argument.
Try downloading at around 1Kps.
DTS> Unless I am missing something .. if you receive a message with
DTS> html doesn't it require the same bandwidth as an attachment as if
DTS> you display. The only exception to this would be the 'get' of
DTS> images etc.
Right. don't send attachments untless necessary. Holds true for HTML
as well as .wav files or these nice jokes in .gif format taking up
over 1MB. Spare me.
DTS> Having the ability to send a message to our users with a toc at the
DTS> beginning of the note and links to other spots in the note is a great
DTS> feature.
What is TOC? And can't you get your recipient's attention just by
saying something meaningfull in a way that is not boring? Do you
really need eye-catchers?
and, links do works in plain text emails.
DTS> So why not just have it optional.
Because we want the developers concentrate on continuing to
concentrate on further deveoping what we think is maybe the best email
client, not on an HTML editor. Because HTML is really not necessary
for email, even though MS and AOL think otherwise and the sheep
follow.
DTS> Do you think that because some TB users don't like HTML it will
DTS> stop?
No. :-(
DTS> Isn't going to happen. AND if you want TB to be successful
TB is not targeted to the mass market.
DTS> and always be at the top of the reviews it will be an important
DTS> add-on. In fact .. maybe it could be a add-on.
Plug-ins will be possible in v2. I see no objection if someone writes
an HTML editor. I can choose not to use it. <g>
DTS> I do have one question though. When email started there was no bold,
DTS> underline etc. Should these simple features be removed?
I don't use these features now, and I see no reason what they should
be used for. If you need eye-catchers to make your message readible
without the reader falling asleep, you might want to look into your
writing style. No, this is not just my opinion; I actually learned
this at school. ;-)
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Cheers,
Thomas.
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