Sunday, June 6, 2004, Allie Martin wrote: U>> In that case the person who gets the table can do something that is U>> _much_ better: (S)he can tell the sender that doing tables like that U>> isn't necessarily a good thing and show him or her a better alternative.
> .. the same can apply for the emoticon issue. In fact the emoticon > issue is more easily solved. I have tried to figure it out, please tell. The best I could come up with that don't involve any change in how TB works as of 2.11.02 would be to add a footnote "If you are using TB and see emoticons, please take the following steps". IMO that is simply not acceptable, by doing so I am implying to the receiver that "if you are not using TB you are a wrong-doer". > You cannot influence how your messages will be rendered by the > receiving client. That's up to the client and the users settings. Which could lead to some very unfortunate misunderstandings that isn't easily resolved even by reading the source of the e-mail. > You can minimize problems but you can't totally eliminate them. I can check and I can re-check, yes, but that's about all there is. It would be nice if the program gave me some help with this, though. For example, there could be a spellcheck-like function that looked for smilies. <snip> > It can be disabled permanently or via a toggle switch (right click in > the viewer and select 'Smileys'). If the user finds an emoticon > strangely placed, as I do at times, (s)he simply toggles off the > smileys. I've done this for a few messages already. There's another thing that could be helpful... If you could attach (in lack of any better words) the toggle to the address book. That way I could tell you that I might very well send meaningful text that easily could be shown as emoticons. -- Urban "Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
