Re: KMail - Replying in HTML

On Wednesday 04 August 2010, O. Sinclair wrote:
> To me it is strange that this is always such an emotional issue to
> some.
> 
> HTML email exist, is widely used and we already can read and compose
> them in KMail (with some limitations) so why it should not be
> possible to reply in HTML as well goes a bit beyond me.

It's pretty simple.

Reading is easy because KDE has a very good HTML rendering engine (which 
the widely used webkit, which is used by most modern browsers, is based 
on, btw). KMail simply uses this rendering engine for displaying HTML 
messages. In fact, we also use it for displaying non-HTML messages.

Composing is already a bit harder. KMail uses a class provided by Qt for 
the composer, but this class provides only very limited support for 
composing HTML.

In order to be able to reply to HTML the composer would need to be able 
to provide much better support for composing HTML. Unfortunately, 
neither Qt nor KDE provide a ready to use component for this and writing 
such a component is not an easy task.

I hope this makes things a bit clearer.


Regards,
Ingo

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