I did it! I did it! (was: Please, let me poke my eyes out...)

[John Thompson]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:33:06 +0900 (EST), John Angelico wrote:

>that's why you should implement the eye-candy at the client, not
>>in the message itself.  Perhaps have a library of effects for things like
>>sending and receiveing mail and so on and all the sender has to do is
>>select which effects to include with the message (maybe as just a few
>>encoded bytes in an X-header line) and the client will read and interpret
>>the sender's chosen effects in the manner the receiver wishes to enjoy
>>them...  If I turn off the effects I have a bog-standard text-only mail
>>client, but if I want to see every sentence in the message body that is
>>terminated with an exclamation point in bright-yellow flashing bold script
>>type on a purple background, well, hey, it's my client, right?
>>

>Hey, yeah!
>
>Sounds like what a web browser program does when rendering the text tags surrounding the text content and called 
>HTML...

Except the way I envision this, it is not a mark-up language and thus does
not affect how text-only clients would view it.


John (john.thompson@attglobal.net)