Re: [Dev-C++] gotoxy

[Hongli L. <h....@ch...>]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

>Actually its purpose is to format text.
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Exactly. So why use it when there's no formatting?

>Yes but HTML is portable, so the clients should support it. :)
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But email != HTML. Email was not designed for HTML.
And mailing lists are not designed to support HTML *at all*.

>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.
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>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.
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Again, email != HTML. Yes, some email clients support HTML, but not all 
of them support HTML, or support it well.
Mail servers still threat your HTML mail as text. The archive still 
treat it as text.