Re: Thunderbird just became a multi-process application

On 2021-01-30 07:01, Dave Royal wrote:
> On 30 Jan 2021 11:44:18 +0000 J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
>> [On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 22:08:47, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote ]
>> (my responses usually follow points raised):
>>
>> And, if the point was that the important part of the message was in
>> HTML, whether you can see it has nothing to do with Thunderbird; many
>> news/email clients can display HTML - certainly I suspect any created or
>> updated in the last decade; the one I'm using ceased development in
>> 2007, and even that can interpret HTML formatting (though not scripts or
>> online content).
> 
> Not true. This news client does not display HTML. tin, which I use on
> Linux and is actively maintained, does not display HTML. Claws/sylpheed,
> which is also an email client, does not display HTML.
> 
> HTML is non-standard on usenet. Moz groups, however, are not usenet.
> 
> But GG is just trolling with this. So ignore him.
> 

Maybe I'm trolling too, (I ignore GG, but see responses, which I also 
usually ignore. However, I feel strongly about standards, since a 
well-written standard makes life easier. Hnec these comments.

HTMl is the de facto standard for email (I have mixed feeling about 
this), and has seeped into Usenet.

Yes, there's a difference between a de facto standard and an official 
standard. All official standards began life as de facto standards, often 
competing ones (hence both MIME and uuencode).

De facto standards often force changes to official standards. Which is a 
good thing, else we'd still be building our cottages with wattle and 
daub. (Some survivalists have revived that technology, though.)

Best,

-- 
Wolf K
"You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is 
right." Lyndon B. Johnson