> > > I can't say that Evo's behaviour is strictly wrong, since all it's doing > > > is what Firefox is telling it, i.e. create a message with a given Body. > > > The Evo developers could argue that adding an extra line in Normal > > > format is exceeding the spec. > > > > It would be nothing more than adding a newline at the end of the given > > Body string. > > Of course, but standards lawyers will say it's still a change, so maybe > it should be optional.
If they do, they are wrong. ;-) This is not claimed by the standard. See below. > > > It's what I want in this case, but is it > > > always what I want? Neither can we ask Firefox to know about Evo's > > > formatting features. > > > > True. > > > > > One solution would be an extra Evo command line option to allow callers > > > to ask for strict/nonstrict inclusion of the body text. > > > > Don't think this will work, since mailto: is some kind of a standard, > > implemented by Browsers and MUAs all over the place. > > Yes, according to Google it's RFC2368, and there isn't any obvious way > of making it do what we want. Oh, I didn't know there is a RFC. Good catch, Patrick. :) > Seems to me the alternatives are: [...] I beg to differ. :) I just read that whole RFC, neither the format nor any additional text is mentioned -- apart from a claim that "The user can edit the message". So it's the responsibility of the MUA to chose a sane paragraph format (if it actually supports multiple) and to add additional text -- at least the signature and a newline does make sense. According to the RFC it is totally legitimate for the MUA, to add a newline char to the body given in the URL. Regarding the paragraph style (Normal vs. Preformat), both make sense in different cases: * Sending long URLs (the original example) wraps with "Normal", but is fine with "Preformat". * Giving a short natural language text [1] for the body is fine with "Normal", but is ugly and unwanted with "Preformat". It can be hard to determine the correct (or at least best) paragraph style for *all* cases possible. But with a newline at the end of the given body string and using "Normal" at least for the second line where the *user* is supposed to enter text, we get a better solution than we do have now. ...guenther [1] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}} _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
