Re: Faster way to replace text in AppleWorks?
Re: Faster way to replace text in AppleWorks?
- Subject: Re: Faster way to replace text in AppleWorks?
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:40:30 -0400
On 09/30/2002 15:56, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Myself, I prefer formatted text, too, especially when someone has gone to
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the trouble to be consistent in organizing it. I like it for scripts, too,
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and for email sometimes. I'm on one mailing list where everyone by
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definition can read HTML. We can send compiled scripts with no problems
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about hard wrapped line endings, non-ASCII characters, indents, or anything
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at all. Sometimes we paste plain text first, then switch to HTML, to avoid
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colors.
The problem WRT to email, isn't formatting vs. plain text. Formatting is
good within reason for the medium. (okay blinking is never good.) The
problem is, with all the yelling, and ASCII campaigns, and other foolishness
going on is that no one seems to have asked the question..."What formatting
does email need?"
Obviously, it doesn't require the full range of HTML formatting. (yes, HTML,
it's the best common ground and pisses everyone off. RTF is too heavy for
email, and HTML is more easily converted to plain text.)
On the definite list:
Basic font (style) selection
Tabs
Indents
Text coloring
Multilingual support
Clickable text links
On the optional list:
Columns
Tables
Verboten:
DHTML
*script
Embedded images
Embedded links that aren't clickable text links (no hidden booger fields)
Elements that require network access to display
Yes, there's some damn formatting style that's been left out. That's the
idea. For email, you take a small subset of standard formatting, but one
that gives you great functionality. You avoid the stupid stuff, dangerous
stuff, or stuff that takes too long to render for an email. If you want all
the formatting goodies, that's what attachments are for.
The benefit of this is that you get reasonably formatted email options,
*without* needing an insanely big engine to render it. It also makes it
easier to strip the tags out and still get readable content.
You know, this would be a great idea for an IETF WG...
john
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