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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Axel Grude wrote on 17.02.2016 01:55:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:56C3C4E4.4010900@gmail.com" type="cite">In our
Company people often use colors for showing "quote level" (*) -
you may argue because Outlook is too stupid to show real quote
levels.</blockquote>
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Exactly. Outlook cannot quote properly.<br>
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Using color for something semantically critical - as who wrote what
and what is part of the message what is not - is a really really bad
idea.<br>
<ol>
<li>red appears unreadable on my screen</li>
<li>people might be color-blind - particular red and green,
because 5% of males are red-green color blind</li>
<li>it's not machine-readable. <blockquote> or plaintext
"> " are, which allows nice recipient-side formatting,
collapsing, trimming etc.</li>
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<blockquote type="cite">(*) one person may reply (inline) in red and
then the next one in green. One may say that this is "retarded"
but we should not ignore the way the ordinary user is going to use
a tool. <br>
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They do that only because Outlook gives them no other reasonable
option. It's not what the users want, but what their tool enforces!<br>
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Do not copy Outlook. Esp. in this area. We win hands-down in this
area. I think TB quotes in our reader look lovely and clear.
***Please*** do not break or delude our excellent quoting. It's
essential, all of the above.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">we could build a really cool UI and better
features than Outlook if we embraced the concept of customizable
styles </blockquote>
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Personally, I struggle with all editors, including LibreWriter and
Outlook. They always seem to get it wrong by continuing a style that
I intended only for 1 word or one paragraph, sometimes just by
pasting, but it continues for the rest of the doc like that and I
have to manually change it back. Highly annoying. TB composer does
that much better.<br>
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Consider that email is something we write more quickly than
documents. The direction is rather to go even quicker, see SMS,
WhatsApp, and GMail and Apple are emulating that for email with
"quickresponse".<br>
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That's not to say our Composer was perfect. But please don't copy
the mistakes of other applications, where we are miles ahead.<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
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