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<blockquote type="cite">This illustrates my main point: Messages
should be style-formatted by the reader, not the sender. I
understand that this point eludes most users, but it's
nonetheless valid. It only becomes evident when you think
yourself into the reader.
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Font sizes (standard size for base text and quotes) are
another good example. Elderly people like to make big fonts
when writing messages - because they find it easier to read
for themselves - understandable. What they will be saying is
that they want to make fonts bigger when composing. What they
really want is to make fonts bigger for themselves - and for
all messages: composer and reader alike, even while writing a
message, but also while reading. At the same time, readers
should not get their big fonts. It would make my eyes fall
out.
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<big><big><big><big>I</big></big></big></big> like those thoughts,
at the same time I like "high-fidelity" HTML views (just like I
prefer websiotes that have predictable, standardized content, that
renders "similar" across browsers and "degrades gracefully".<br>
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<big><big><big><big>O</big></big></big></big>n the size issue, why
not have some maximum / minimum size settings on the Reader side?
(I know we have a minimum, why not add maximum as well?)<br>
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<big><big><big><big>A</big></big></big></big>nd same with colors,
one could enforce specific rulesets for colorblinds (e.g. using
red + blue instead of red + green for font colors). I guess that
one is a little more esoteric so it sounds like perfect Addons
territory.<br>
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Re: Example: Why I believe we need a new HTML editor<br>
<b>From: </b>Ben Bucksch<br>
<b>To:</b> Tb-planning <br>
<b>Sent: </b>Monday, 22/02/2016 01:45:09 01:45 GMT ST +0000
[Week 8]<br>
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<blockquote class=" cite" id="mid_56CA6825_2090609_beonex_com"
cite="mid:56CA6825.2090609@beonex.com" type="cite">Matt Harris
wrote on 20.02.2016 15:47:
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<blockquote class=" cite" id="Cite_2374539" type="cite">coloured
quote levels, I like them, almost as much as I like
Thunderbird's block quoting with lines. But we offer no
customization at all, after all it is up to the user if they
want to do something stupid with the customization like white
text on a white background, or try and retrieve mail very
minute.
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I think we'd make a lot of users happy, if we optionally allowed
all quotes to appear in colors - in the reader, not the composer.
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In preferences, or even directly in the reader somewhere ("direct
manipulation" mantra of UI), show quotes in colors. Different
color for a different level.
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Advantage: All messages would appear like this for that end user.
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This would be a really nice feature. And it would be trivial to
implement - it's merely a CSS stylesheet. We wanted to add this 15
years ago, but just never got around to it. There must be a
bugzilla feature bug about it somewhere, too.
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Relevant extensions:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/quote-colors/">https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/quote-colors/</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/smarttemplate4/">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/smarttemplate4/</a>
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It can't be the default, because some people have difficulty
reading text in certain colors. For the same reason, senders
should not set that.
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This illustrates my main point: Messages should be style-formatted
by the reader, not the sender. I understand that this point eludes
most users, but it's nonetheless valid. It only becomes evident
when you think yourself into the reader.
<br>
<br>
<br>
Font sizes (standard size for base text and quotes) are another
good example. Elderly people like to make big fonts when writing
messages - because they find it easier to read for themselves -
understandable. What they will be saying is that they want to make
fonts bigger when composing. What they really want is to make
fonts bigger for themselves - and for all messages: composer and
reader alike, even while writing a message, but also while
reading. At the same time, readers should not get their big fonts.
It would make my eyes fall out.
<br>
<br>
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Ergonomics dictate that all messages that I read should have the
same base font and size and color, no matter who wrote it.
<br>
<br>
Ben
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