[SM-PLUGINS] trajectory for html_mail and Chrome

[WJCarpenter <bil...@ca...>]

I'm just looking for info here ... not trying (very hard :-) to get 
someone to jump into action to do real work.

Someone recently brought to my attention that the HTML email editing 
doesn't work for them when they use Chrome.  That led me quickly to the 
html_mail plugin (by Paul Lesniewski), which we have locally configured 
to use FCKeditor.  After some brief poking around, I searched the old 
email archives, which confirmed what I had found:

-- the plugin itself does some browser user agent checking, and it won't 
even try to use the HTML editors if you are not using IE or FF (or 
derivatives)

-- even if you get past that, the included version of FCKeditor has 
problems for Chrome, but there are hints that newer versions of 
FCKeditor cope OK

It looks pretty straightforward to solve both of those things locally 
(fix up the user agent checks in the plugin and update to a newer 
version of FCKeditor.  (The html_mail plugin includes helpful notes on 
how to actually do an FCKeditor update.)  Naturally, one prefers that 
the html_mail plugin itself get updated so that all can benefit and so 
as to minimize local tweaks.

So,

-- Is there any plan (even if vague and with no timeline) to update 
html_mail for Chrome?

-- If not, and if someone else stepped up to do labor of the mods to 
html_mail, would they be accepted as an official update to that plugin?

As usual, thanks to Paul and all other SM and plugin developers for past 
and future efforts.