Duncan wrote:
Rui Maciel posted on Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:07:01 +0000 as excerpted:
On 02/09/2012 12:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I really don't understand the choice of displaying HTML attachments
in-line as raw text. It seems to be saying "Screw you, I dislike HTML
posts and so will deliberately make them as obnoxious and annoying as
possible in the hope that Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, IBM, etc. will
change their mind about supporting HTML mail in their mail clients". As
if that's ever going to happen.
Do you happen to know any Usenet standard that supports HTML?
Note that what he said doesn't /necessarily/ mean it must be displayed as
fully-parsed HTML. There's a couple other options as well.
Good grief. I certainly didn't intend to suggest that Pan provide its own HTML
rendering engine! If I did, I apologize for the confusion.
One option would be to simply treat HTML parts as attachments. They'd be
saved when the attachments were saved and listed on the attachments
line. Additionally, when save text is chosen, the entire raw article
would be saved, all parts included just as they appear in the raw
message, just as they are now.
I thought that's what I was suggesting.
Another option that would fit in nicely with the first would be to add an
open in browser option. The existing browser setting that's activated
when a URL is clicked would be opened to display the html part in the
tool already designed to handle html in a secure and efficient way, the
browser.
That would also be good.
Yet another option, and the way claws-mail handles html, is to simply
strip out the html tags, leaving only the plain text. I know how well
that works because I recently switched to claws-mail (from kmail, when it
akonadified) as my mail client, in part BECAUSE it only displays plain
text. (It also has the open in browser functionality mentioned above,
but I have that option turned off.)
The mutt email client passes HTML to links, which generates the plain text
view. It works very well, and avoids re-inventing the wheel.
--
Steven
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