inline HTML, 1L8N, 16-bit character sets, the death of ASCII predicted

Fri Oct 17 12:38:01 PDT 2003

[postmaster@ is getting closer to "caught up"....]

Depends on your client and level of sophistication, doesn't it?

Rich text isn't going away any time soon. In fact, most clients 
automatically convert anything that parses as a URL into a clickable 
entity. Multiple fonts are frequently embedded in messages.

I personally find it valuable to use bold to highlight certain critical 
elements of communications to clients, so that there is no misunderstanding.

The majority of the world's users increasingly agree, that this adds 
value ... and with 18LN efforts solidly based on 16-bit character sets, 
the days of plain old ASCII are, I suspect, numbered.

-- richard

Chuck Yerkes wrote:

>Quoting richard childers / kg6hac (fscked at pacbell.net):
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>>The URL is ... well,
>>let's just say 'www.wsj.com', it's a long URL and I know HTML is viewed,
>>by many, with suspicion, as a subversive technology, anyway.) 
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>For email, yes.  For email to lists, double yes.
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