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On 6/29/2011 7:33 PM, Jim wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4E0BB666.9010602@gmail.com" type="cite">The
main reason I haven't bothered (and, I suspect, why many other
devs haven't) is that I use the plain text editor. To be honest,
I'm not even really sure what the specific problems people have
with the composer are (aside from backend issues); you mentioned a
few, but I'm sure there are more out there.</blockquote>
<font face="Arial">You could start by actually using the HTML
Editor...right here might not be a bad place to start. If you
don't understand the problems, there is little </font><img
style="float: left;" float=""
src="cid:part1.07080109.04000106@gmail.com" alt="" height="87"
hspace="20" width="160"><font face="Arial">incentive to fix them.
I would suggest that you not restrict yourself to the minimal UI
in the formatting toolbar, but try to actually compose a mini-
webpage. You might say that email composition doesn't relate to
Web pages...My answer to that is "What is the attraction of
Facebook and the other social networks, if not exchanging
discourse in a Web-like fashion."<br>
I did this completely with Thunderbird. To get an understanding of
the problems..try snipping this section, and editing it so that
the Gecko appears floated to the right instead of the left. You
might get enlightened by the effort. You can send the result to my
email address, rather than here, if you wish.</font>
<blockquote cite="mid:4E0BB666.9010602@gmail.com" type="cite">
Having a full list of these problems would help enormously, even
if we just focused on frontend issues for the time being. If we
had a list like that, I would probably be able to fix some of the
issues. Even though that might not make the composer "great", it
would at least make it "better". <br>
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I moved down here with the cursor, and guess what...my chosen font
has changed to variable width.<br>
That would be #1 on the list.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250539">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250539</a>
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[MailNews Core] - New paragraph (e.g. list) clears formatting, does
not respect font prefs for HTML messages [All] <br>
21 Dups 44 cc's orig bug 2004-07-09 <br>
<br>
<font face="Arial">I compiled this list about a year and a half ago,
so the Dups, and CC counts are I'm sure incorrect/invalid or
whatever.<br>
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</font><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380372">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380372</a>
<br>
[Thunderbird] - Attachment error when saving twice as draft a mail
template containing an inline image [All] <br>
3 Dups 23 cc's orig bug 2007-05-11 <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224733">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224733</a>
<br>
[MailNews Core] - escape issues with mailbox urls in the compose
window [Win] <br>
7 Dups 10 cc's orig bug 2003-11-04 <br>
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Related <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351109">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351109</a>
<br>
[MailNews Core] - Reply/Forward/Edit of .EML file corrupts image URL
(bad escape) [All] <br>
<br>
Related: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429846">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429846</a>
<br>
[Thunderbird] - Copy and Paste breaks mail-internal links <a
href="#anchor"> (private profile links get sent, broken) [All] <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154836">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154836</a>
<br>
[MailNews Core] - Image sent embedded is not used for the style
sheet. CID: url types doesn't work for CSS [All] <br>
4 Dups 11 cc's orig bug 2002-06-28 <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380372">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380372</a>
<br>
[Thunderbird] - Attachment error when saving twice as draft a mail
template containing an inline image [All] <br>
4 Dups 23 cc's orig bug 2007-05-11 <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247816">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247816</a>
<br>
[Core:Editor] - Adding float style causes some pre-existing style
attributes to be dropped [All] <br>
1 Dup 5 cc's orig bug 2004-06-20 <br>
Note: the advanced editor is a feature that most users simply don't
know about. <br>
It's difficult to use, gives no syntax help, but if you know a
little CSS, works fine, except for the above bug. <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31052">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31052</a>
<br>
[MailNews Core] - Send Page received with added text in color. [All]
<br>
13 Dups 22 cc's orig bug 2000-03-08 <br>
<br>
Related: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341059">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341059</a>
<br>
[MailNews Core] - MIME messages should be displayed using separate
DOM documents for each part [All] <br>
<br>
<font face="Arial">A couple of those might actually not be
Core/Editor but Libmime or the way we render the message as one
big document.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
JoeS<br>
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