-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Robert,
Saturday, January 18, 2003, 5:12:56 AM, you wrote: > Editing in HTML and sending Emails in HTML is expected in this > century. Yes Text messages have their place too, however, do not > stamp your feet and send a plain message to friend or potential > client. Many people like html mail This why the smartest setting on > Email is both html and text outbound and if you never want to see > HTML just set your receive mode to accept only the text part of an > html email or bounce the message, however, do not deprive other > users from HTML mail which still has its place. A client of mine is > just the oposite. Hates text plain messages. Loves HTML which is why > she does not care for the BAT. Also it makes a product look hoky > when graphics com up as square [X] instead of what it should have. Sounds like you really meant to type "instead of how a web browser would have displayed it." The Bat isn't a web browser. There is no reason for it to behave like such. > I do agree Javascript should be a security feature enabled or > disabled by the user. I completely disagree about the let the > browser do the work. People like convenience. i use Opera at times > and find it to open fast so this is less of an issue for me now, but > would not it be nice to down arrow each message seeing a preview > displayed without the [X} graphics and render the actual page with > or without script or applet/active X or flash enable?? The idea behind not downloading images files on web servers is that doing so opens the client up to spammer tricks involving things like web bugs. HTML messages which include the graphics as part of the e-mail do render properly. > Take a look at HotMetal which embeds explorer code. I think > something like that can be done and give you the control while using > a dll interface from the browser vendor to more quickly render the > web page clearly and securely. I shudder at the thought of Internet Explorer being called secure. Embeding Internet Explorer in an application introduces all of it bugs and there are a lot of them. > Again these features should be configurable > I think News groups are an important part of an Email client as > well. I disagree. Being a News Reader is not the responsibility of an e-mail client. > TB needs to match the Eudora capbilities while leaving out the > security flaws and inefficiencies, but provide the capability to > display messages and edit messages in HTML. > Again I think a simple switch when installing should nicely take > care of the Mr. Text onlys who hate HTML email. News groups are > important and so is the ability to edit HTML and receive and display > it. I absolutely agree, News groups are important. I read them all the time myself. The ability to edit HTML and being able to receive and display it is also good. They just don't belong in an e-mail client. - -- Best regards, Jonathan Chattin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQE+KTvbryIAwRrDgYwRAlFWAKDd8c7POMRLJI2FM2BnyHzCRFRn2QCgvJ8n eOWT/tSh0NTMWdEkDYP8IQ8= =8Bzm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
