Re: KMail - Replying in HTML

On Thursday 05 August 2010, O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 04/08/2010 20:17, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks Ingo - clear and informative as usual.
> 
> I quote from the loooong list of replies to KDE Bug 86423, is the guy
> correct and could it be as easily implemented as he suggests?

[snip]

Hmm. I haven't looked very closely at QWebkit, but it seems as if it 
would provide the missing piece of the puzzle. All that's needed is a 
motivated developer to check it out.


Regards,
Ingo

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