[pmmail-list] HTML formatting

[L.Willms]

On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 03:51:40 +0000 (GMT), Jim Nuytens wrote:

   About text/html bodyparts: 

>> In OS/2 I believe the major technical issue is that BSW would have to
>> create their own rendering engine for HTML, a fairly major operation for
>> a rather small market.
> 
> And, I might add, also redundant. 
> 
> If an OS/2 user wants to view HTML mail, that's what "Window -> View
> Message In Web Browser" is for in the first place. 

   No, no, and no. 

   For one, I do not want the browser to execute some Javascript or whatever 
in the HTML mail; 

   I do not want to deliver "contact information" by calling a web bug (you 
see those tiny little images of size 1 by 1 pixel, whose file name includes 
some id string for the recipient of the message); 
 
   The regular HTML browser is not capable of showing the embedded images in a 
multipart/related message, since it doesn't know about their content ID (at 
least PMMail/2 doesn't hand them over). 

   BPSW have chosen a cross pplaform GUI library called wxWindows which 
includes a HTML rendering machine, and of which also an OS/2 is in development 
(see http://www.wxwindows.org/). So the technical issue should not be that 
enormous. 

Yours, 
Lüko Willms
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