> > > > > 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.
FYI, filed as bug #323143.
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