Re: Thunderbird just became a multi-process application

Wolf K <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2021-01-30 07:01, Dave Royal wrote:
>> 
>> 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, html is the de facto standard for email. Though personally I send 
most mail in plain text. Some of my mobiles only send html emails. I
like Claws email but it's too inconvenient reading only the plaintext
version of Tesco shopping receiptss so I use Thunderbird.

html may have 'seeped' into Usenet but I see none in the groups I 
frequent. I assume from John's earlier post that Turnpike can display 
html, but he posted in plaintext. And you're posting plaintext in 
Thunderbird. Many people seem to use Newstap for iOS, which is a fairly 
recent app, and that posts in plaintext. I wouldn't be surprised if 
many usenet providers (I use ES) don't accept html. Maybe they strip it 
out of relayed posts.

The Moz newsgroups are different in that they're also mirroring a 
mailing list so email messages, and therefore html, is obviously OK.
People usually post both html and plaintext in multipart/alternative
format so it works fine in all my newsreaders. 

The OP is non-standard because RFC2046 specifies that for
multipart/alternative 'each of the body parts is an "alternative" 
version of the same information". 
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