page width

Steve Wart swart at home.com
Thu Nov 11 20:39:05 UTC 1999


Rather than "enriching" the plain-text part of the e-mail, why not modify
the fileout format (say, to XML) so that it is impervious to the whims of
end-of-line anachronisms?

Then people can turn line wrapping on again in their mail clients.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lex Spoon [mailto:lex at cc.gatech.edu]
> Sent: November 11, 1999 1:49 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: page width
>
>
> Bijan Parsia <bparsia at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> > At 9:19 PM -0500 11/10/99, Eric Ulevik wrote:
> >
> > >    Obligatory on-topic observation: Can't I read HTML email in
> Squeak?
> > > If not, should be easy, right?
> >
> > Right now, you can't. But you're right that it's pretty easy to hack
> up.
> >
>
> Celeste does this.  I don't remember which changeset.  You're right that
> it's very simple, given an email reader and an HTML formatter and a
> wonderful language to tie them together with.
>
> I think I'd rather read enriched-text email, however.  enriched text is
> more minimal, only having basic things like boldface and centering.
> Plus enriched text can *always* be converted to a text-only format.
>
> Lex
>





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