RE: [Dev-C++] gotoxy

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hongli Lai [mailto:h....@ch...] 
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:02 AM
> To: Ioannis Vranos
> Cc: Dev-C++ Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] gotoxy
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 23:56, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> > Guys do not bother. It is a religious war and religions 
> don't change so
> > easily. :) There are the text guys and there are the graphics guys.
> >
> > I recall older times when there was the antiframe movement, 
> that is to
> > create web sites without frames. Believe it or not, those guys still
> > believe the same things! Around that time there was the anti-html
> > movement (ASCII movement) that said we do not need html. Obviously
> > Hongli Lai belongs to that old movement or is directly 
> affected by that.
> > Don't expect one another to change. :)
> >
> >
> 
> Well actually there was a time when I loved all this HTML 
> mail stuff...
> until I realized how useless it is.
> Use HTML for what it's supposed to do: creating websites.


Actually its purpose is to format text.



> This is a public mailing list, with all kinds of people with different
> configurations and clients (even clients that do not support HTML).
> And the archive doesn't support HTML either.


Yes but HTML is portable, so the clients should support it. :)



> 
> What's so difficult in sending non-HTML email to a mailing list?
> There's no point in sending HTML mail when there's no 
> formatting anyway,
> so why bother use it?


Well you have actually a point. But people usually send html in the list
because they have it as a default to new email, since people sometimes
communicate with formatted text. And we are bored to change from within
a menu to simple text in a new message.

But since HTML is standardised, it should be supported from any decent
mail client (and it is even in Linux). Sometimes some clients cannot
write in HTML but they can read it.



Ioannis

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