At 12:06 PM -0600 6/20/03, Vernon Schryver wrote:
Which works fine until you get email from someone who assumed you were using fixed pitch. I've tried it, it's not worth the hassle. Lots of plain/text messages don't assume fixed pitch, but when they do, they *really* do.That's wrong. If you as a mail receiver like variable pitch fonts, then you can have them with common MUAs with plaintext mail simply by configuring your MUA. If you don't like variable pitch fonts, then
Absolutely, all the time. In fact, in the code I just wrote to look for hand-generated HTML, I specifically count font tags as hand generated only if the face or the size changes from what was used in the previous font tag. If I just looked to a face tag, just about everything from Outlook would get marked as hand-generated. Even my pre-teen daughters send multi-font email. Don't look at me. *I* didn't tell them how. In fact, in one of my older daughter's first messages to a friend, she figured out how to cut and paste the smiley graphics from iChat into the mail program, and mailed off a message containing 200 itsy bitsy TIF images of different smiley faces. (Bummer drag--first message to someone, and it was HTML.)Do you think much HTML mail specifies a font by other than <BIG> or a numeric size? My impression is otherwise.