[Admin] Re: Real cool device
[Admin] Re: Real cool device
- Subject: [Admin] Re: Real cool device
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:20:37 -0300
Geez John, did you have a bad sandwich at lunch, or a cold dinner?
You're going on about the advantages of formatting or HTML and people
raving about mice and such that don't have anything to do with my
comment, which was this: We all have our own colour coding for
AppleScript, and someone else's code colouring scheme, if used in a
mail message, wouldn't necessarily make it easier to read the code.
That's it, nothing more.
For instance, I know some people with colour blindness (one in 20 men
have some form of it) who use a scheme to accommodate their own
particular needs, but some of these schemes I've seen would distract
me from the code, not make it easier to read. One I recall was really
jarring for my eyes. In the end, AppleScript code is best viewed in
one's Script Editor. That's it. You went down a long road far off the
path my comment was on. I'm not addressing any of it because it
wasn't related to my comment.
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At 3:47 PM -0500 10/14/04, John C. Welch wrote:
On 10/14/04 3:39 PM, "Bill Briggs" <email@hidden> wrote:
Because on a programming list, the ability to properly format and colorize
code is handy?
Maybe. But if it's a different colour coding system than yours it
does little to improve readability. We're all trained to penetrate
our own schemes.
I left off the advantages of a properly formatted numbered list when
giving step by step instructions, and how italics or bold are better
for emphasis than *this* or THIS, because the first requires that
you are familiar with that convention, and the second is hard to use
without being rude, whereas the visual differences in italics and
bold immediately draw your eye and work better.
There's also the advantage of being able to use a different font for
code than for the rest of the text, allowing you to process it
better.
Yes, HTML email can be abused. So can text for that matter. And I'm
quite sure there's a huge chunk of the Internet who still screams in
fury and rage over such things, along with GUIs, csh, EMACS and
mice. However, that doesn't stop it, and perhaps attending to it in
a proactive fashion, and showing people who over use it how they can
use it correctly is better than screaming and saying you'll never
read non-text email or you'll not participate in any list that
allows it ever again.
Yes, I used to hate HTML email, but then I realized I hated its
abuse and misuse, not its existence, and it's easier to get people
to use it well than to force them to stop.
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