RE: [Dev-C++] gotoxy

[Santiago P. C. <San...@yd...>]

Well...

RTF, XML, LaTeX, PDF & PS are also portable and widely used, why do not use
that formats to write emails? =8-O

What I want is to give some constructive critics, so sorry for the previous
sarcasm, it is not intended to hurt anyone... :o)

HTML purpose is to create web pages, not only to format text (HTML handles a
lot of elements that aren't 'text'), so the point here could be: use HTML
for what it is supposed to be used => web pages!

We're writting emails, not designing web pages. We're also not formatting
text, we're still writting emails, so if you want to format TEXT use RTF (or
LaTeX or whatever you want).

And there's another point here: email clients _CAN_ support HTML but in fact
they _MUST_ support PLAIN TEXT !!!
Email clients can support a lot of formats but (AFAIK) there's no indication
/ recomendation about supportting HTML or not, it is up to the developer to
do so. Just remember that HTML is handled by mail servers as plain text...

Anyway, please don't try to argue that "because HTML is newer and looks nice
it should replace plain text in mailing lists"!

Just think about this: why not avoid the use of C/C++ and port everything to
Java? 
Java is newer, portable, easier... BUT C/C++ is rock-solid, creates smaller
executables, faster programs, etc that's why we are here talking about
C/C++, right? 
Now replace C/C++ with plain text and Java with HTML... 

* Should we replace the use of plain-text-based email clients just because
there are HTML?
* Why not to use HTML for the things it was designed for and plain text for
what is was being used for (like emails)?
* The same for C/C++ and Java: It's better to write some programs in C/C++
and some others in Java, the last will not replace the former and viceversa.

Things are not black or white, there are a lot of grey scales... And I've
also heared about something called 'colors' ;o)

Regards, Santy

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