On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 23:41 +0100, guenther wrote: > > > > 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.
Could be. I didn't read it that carefully. > 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. Absolutely. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
