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Re: text/html an abomination

2002-05-07 08:21:58

At 08:27 AM 5/7/2002 -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
i.e. it's not that people are making excessive use of boldface, font
changes, etc - it's that implementors are adding gratuitous markup
that typically wasn't specified by the author of the message and
adds absolutely nothing to the displayed output.

here, you offer a rather more constrained and pragmatic criticism than the text in the subject line or your previous comment.

A call for more conservative use of 'automatic' html by implementors seems downright reasonable.

d/


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