On Wednesday, August 10, 2005, at 06:05 AM, ms wrote: > Sorry for this (maybe) silly question, but what do you think:
> Is it still considered "good" to have free mass text (not manual > ascii-tables, quotes or the like) automatically wrapped at (e.g.) 70 > characters? For e-mail, yes. Most e-mail clients will wrap unformatted text at the window width. TB! is one such client. This means that if all were to send me unwrapped e-mail text, I'd have to read mail wrapped at my current viewer width. As a result, it would wrap at a width that's not comfortable for reading. A 72 character wrap limit is pretty ideal for reading and this is where that wrap limit came from. You may now say that I could reduce my viewer width to compensate. If I do this, then my message list viewer would be equally narrowed and I don't want this. I don't wish to have my text wrap limit controlled by window size. Pegasus will wrap received text at a designated character limit. Unfortunately this is not common and unless clients adopt this a lot more, then e-mail isn't ready for the sending of unformatted text. > In TB! (that I don't use for this mail, as you can see, because its > not installed on this machine) I have wrapping activated. Wrapping allows wrapping at the defined character limit when editing, and window wrapping when viewing text. > But I have this discussion with friends sometimes, and besides the > point that some clients don't quote correctly when replying (one > > at the beginning and then many many lines without > ) and the > "what-you-see-is-what-you-send" effect when composing a mail I > sometimes run out of "pro's". What pros does it run out of? Sending unformatted text creates more problems than it solves. We have been there and that's how wrapping on sending started. > On the other hand there is the "contra" that text cannot be pasted > easily into other apps when wrapped, and that nowadays nearly every > client auto wraps incoming mail correctly. Unless I'm misunderstanding you, I've used many clients and this is not true. Correctly autowrapping should mean that I could set my viewer to wrap the text at an 80 character limit. Right now, most clients will just window wrap the text. As I've described above, this isn't good enough. > Can someone point me to a good website that cares about this maybe? I don't have one at my fingertips now. -- -= Curtis=- Using TB! v3.51.10 System Specs: http://specs.aimlink.name =-=-= ...Half of the people in the world are below average. ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
