Steven D'Aprano posted on Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:33:08 +1100 as excerpted: > 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.
LOL! It was ambiguous, but I originally chose not to interpret it that way. However, it seems a lot of folks did, and I simply pointed out that didn't have to be the case. >> One option would be to simply treat HTML parts as attachments. > > I thought that's what I was suggesting. Indeed. That's how my first reply took it, as well. But... >> 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. It's an interesting idea that wouldn't make links a compile-time linked- in dependency, only a run-time recommend. If it was configurable, people could choose to pass it to something else instead. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
