[Gllug] Email Formats

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 21 Nov 2001, Jackson, Harry wrote:
>I do not think that it is evil its the user who pulls the trigger.

"Guns don't kill people, ammunition kills people."

The trouble is that the majority of the users are trigger-pullers.

>What I would like is a subset of HTML to avoid the abuse where you could
>have;
>A few different fonts

God, no. Let me read my mail in the font I like, and don't let font
changes become supposedly significant.

>About four colours.
>Background highlighting but only shades of grey
>Underline

The trouble with all this is it's physical markup, which is exactly
wrong - all else aside, what's a shade of grey on a screen reader?

What you need is logical markup for emphasis and marking sections, but
to leave the physical representation up to the reader - like how HTML
was meant to work.

>Tables  

No bad idea, if we can suppress the tendency for people to use tables
for things that aren't tables.

>Ladies

Not very useful in mail, I think.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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