boy, what a pain to cross post!
Ben Bucksch wrote:
> Robin Whittle wrote:
>> I can't imagine why I would want to use
>> this in any email I sent. Generally, there is no point in making more
>> characters per line than 72 or 77 or so. Longer lines are needed for
>> URLs, tabular data, or perhaps deeply quoted text. Longer lines or
>> ordinary prose longer than 80 chars or so are generally hard to read
>
>
> For *you*.
And *me*. With a high screen resolution and fairly wide window (to get
as much as possible in the thread pane), flowed plain text (and html)
lines can be way too long and difficult to read. IMO, it's a usability
issue. I want viewed flowed plain text (and most html) to wrap, not to
the window width, but to the width I have specified in my plain text
compose prefs. I've mucked around with userContent.css, but haven't
found the right class or whatever to override the message view window.
I'll hack the chrome if I need to, but I shouldn't have to go this far.
>> I
>> can't imagine why I would want someone to read my prose like that.
>
>
> I can. I want to.
>
> See, nor all people share your favor for Plaintext. I don't want to read
> or wrote text with a 80-char limit. I compose in the HTML editor, which
> wraps to the window with, and send as plaintext. Ideally, my
> correspondents send format=flowed, so I can read flowed as well.
IMHO, flowed text (and html) mail sucks. I turned f=f off in prefs for
outgoing mail because some of the folks I have business correspondence
with had some formatting problems with it. The more replies there were,
the uglier it got, and I was not about to tell them to fix their mail
setup. I use the plaintext editor, and am glad to see that I'm not alone.
> I think, you're getting the numbers wrong here. There aren't millions of
> Mozilla Plaintext Editor users, and there might never be.
OK, so there are at least 2 of us. :)
> Most use the HTML editor, which works fine in this case.
Not if it's gonna send f=f plain text.
> oh, you can code? Cool, get on board and hack Mozilla!
Sure wish I could. Chrome hacks are about all I can manage. :(
