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Re: HTML WYSIWYG Editor
by fault on Sunday 29/Jun/2003, @15:20

> HTML and e-mail just don't mix.

Hrmm. A significant portion of the Windows/Mac/Webmail using-population (perhaps 95%+ of computer users) use HTML-based mail.

HTML mail has a stigma with geeks and advanced computer users. This doesn't mean email and HTML don't mix however.

(btw, I certainly do hate HTML mail, but this isn't a good enough reason to keep WSYIWYG editing out of kmail if anyone decided to do it..)

> Mail is plain text,

I think you're completely misunderstanding what the concept of MIME is.

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Re: HTML WYSIWYG Editor
by Datschge on Sunday 29/Jun/2003, @16:16

MIME is basically a hack to allow non-ASCII text and data in a media which is limited to transferring ASCII text.

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Re: HTML WYSIWYG Editor
by fault on Sunday 29/Jun/2003, @17:08

MIME is hardly a hack. It was created for email specfically (perhaps the "hackiness" of MIME comes when it's used in places other than mail) and is well documented. It has been a defacto standard for the last ten years-- a period of time where the internet has had explosive growth. MIME has indeed helped in this growth, as things like email would have been less flexible. ASCII-only email was only common place before MIME existed. Almost everyone who has used email has used the fruits of MIME, such as sending/receiving documents or images through attachments, or sending/receiving html mail.

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Re: HTML WYSIWYG Editor
by Datschge on Monday 30/Jun/2003, @06:25

Emails as we still use them today were never intended to break the 7bit ASCII barrier. MIME as a rule set itself is nice and dandy, but using it as an excuse to blow up the size of the outdated email format whenever 8bit data occures is very cheap. A successor to the classic email format capable of containing 8bit data should have been introduced, the currently used solution is not good design, it *is* a hack.

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