Re: OT: HTML mail and multi-part mime [ not Re: list syntax ]
Re: OT: HTML mail and multi-part mime [ not Re: list syntax ]
- Subject: Re: OT: HTML mail and multi-part mime [ not Re: list syntax ]
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:45:35 -0800
- Thread-topic: OT: HTML mail and multi-part mime [ not Re: list syntax ]
On 2/26/06 7:26 PM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2006, at 8:13 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
>> Michelle> By using the following formatting of mail for scripts,
>> the scripts
>> Michelle> will retain their formatting--bold, color, etc., which
>> makes it
>> Michelle> easier to read.
>>
>> Except for the one thing that makes them useful... being normal ASCII!
>
> How does plain ASCII make them any more useful than formatting them?
Actually ASCII has nothing to do with it. I assume Randal meant "plain text"
- some people have this abhorrence of formatted text. I expect we'll be
hearing from more of them.
AppleScript uses 4 characters which are certainly not ASCII : , ¾, , ¬,
and scripts can contain literal text with hundreds more non-ASCII characters
and now thousands of Unicode characters too. Surely most people here recall
the bad old days when this list server would mangle every non-ASCII
character, making a mockery of and confusion of scripts containing the four
characters above and lots of others.
And, as both Michelle and Gnarlie have said, the biggest problem with
plain-text email is that it hard-wraps text at under 80 characters, making
it not only hard to read but hard to copy, paste and compile, since you have
to laboriously remove the inserted hard returns. Yes, some email clients cab
send format=flowed, avoiding that problem, but others can't. HTML solves
that problem. In addition, I would agree that reading formatted text, as
formatted by a script editor, makes it easier to read, as long as you
haven't chosen some garish, hard-to-read colors. Best is to stick with
AppleScript Formatting defaults. But I know that others have other opinions
about that.
It doesn't matter much what we think. For about three (?) years now, this
list has faithfully honored the non-ASCII characters we need, and also
permitted HTML. I, for one, and very happy about that, although I'll usually
use plaintext - like now - unless I'm including script snippets. I guess
others just have to put up with it, or use mail rules to strip the HTML.
This is just so much better than the old days, where the list would change
to <, and ¾ to , and to I forget what.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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