On Sunday 15 February 2004 04:05, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
The beauty of syntax highlighting is that different ideas stand out, and are
easily identified.
Which compels me to suggest asking the developers of GUI mailers to adopt the 'syntax highlighting' that Mutt provides.
When I use _yada_, /yada/ or *yada* in Mozilla it makes nice underscored, slanted and bold text from the text inside the markers, I wouldn't know what more to ask for. Certainly red, 24 point, blinking text like my colleagues send doesn't make me jump higher..
Theo
Well said. People who have difficulty expressing an idea without color, blinking text, tripple bold, underline, should READ more to find out how others get points across. The written word, and standard language markup, have served mankind well for thousands of years. Would any of the great writers be better with bold and blinking text. My take on this, is even if all the Technical problems were solved it would still be a bad idea. I have all my email readers set to text only, and those messages with no plain text component go straight to trash. My feeling is that if the writer can not take the time to put his/her thoughts down in plain text, then they probably have nothing to say that could not be said via an instant message. About here is where some will be tempted to replay with a huge "bullshit" in 72point Red, Blinking, Underlined, Arial Extra Bold font on a background of solid brown, and a border of fancy green lace with inlayed images of raised middle fingers. ;-) Plain text protects me from all but the essential content of that. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen