Re: Re[2]: [Dev-C++] Using the Resource Editor

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

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 03:38, Bob Wilson wrote:
> Most email is sent with some sort of text formatting.

I don't know what kind of email you recieve, but most email I recieve do
*not* contain formatting.


> I agree that html grew from the process and requirements of web page development, but I do not agree that it is only for
> web pages and neither do many advertisers and newsletter writers.

If course advertisers (read: spammers) use HTML. They are trying to get
your attention by using pretty moving graphics and other "cool stuff".
But we're not advertising here, we're sending simple messages to a
mailing list!


> Microsoft system using Outlook or Outlook Express. I'm fairly sure that all of the e-mail transmitted viruses have involved
> an executable file of some kind attached to or embedded in the e-mail which required user action to function. If that is not
> the case, please educate me. 

Ever heard of BubbleBoy?


> 
> Obviously the first is preferable to the second. 
> 

Why does one need HTML in order to make code look like the first one?
You do that in plain text too using press Enter and Tab/Space, what does
HTML have to do with this?
And the first example doesn't contain any formatting at all, it just
idents every line. It does not look so different from plain text to me,
except that the fonts are horribly small because of the HTML.


> Likewise formatted emails are easier to read and understand.

Ehm... where's the formatting? I don't see it. So why use HTML when
there's no formatting?


> Frankly there is no excuse for not using every tool to enhance
> understanding and better communications. That includes using the
> message formatting capabilities of the predominant e-mail programs.

There is an excuse: and the excuse is that your "tool to enhance better
communication" can make things only worse on anything other than Outlook
Express or Windows.
And here's another excuse: you're not using the tools to enhance
communication. Where's the formatting in this email? The only formatting
I see is the bold text quoting Zodiaq. I fail to see how that's any
different from using plain ">" characters, because any modern and decent
email client highlights lines that begin with ">" so that you can
immediately see that it's a quote.


> Also it is instructive to remember that
> dev-c++ is designed for the windows environment. Therefore it is more
> than reasonable to expect that anyone who participates in the
> discussions here would be able to receive, display, read, answer, and
> store messages in the format common to the platform for which dev-c++
> is designed.

But all the developers of Dev-C++ spend more time in Linux than on
Windows.
You're only making things harder for us.


> In regards to the archives on the server of the e-mail discussions,
> html based e-mails should not be a problem here either, but they are.
> The web archival system should be able to display an html message
> "htmlly" as well as one that is purely textual. Obviously that is not
> the case, but it should be. To me, the inconvenience posed by the html
> tags when you review an html based message archived  on the web site
> is more than offset by the enhanced communications formatting offers
> to those who receive the message directly.

Like I said before: you're not using much formatting in this email, thus
you aren't "enhancing" *anything*.



Formatting has it's purpose, but in *simple email messages*, with almost
no formatting, HTML is simply useless.
You can achieve the same formatting by using plain text.
Do you want to quote something? Prepend ">" to a line and the email
client will highlight it for you. Do you want bold text? Do it like
*this* and the text between the asteriks characters will become bold.
How's that any different from using HTML to format text?