- From: Jose Kahan <jose.kahan@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:01:46 +0200
- To: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Cc: Janet Smith <elo575@lycos.co.uk>, site-comments@w3.org
Janet, Susan got it right. It's much more annoying for people to have their message be reformatted than to scroll. The problem doesn't come from the pre, but from broken mail clients that allow to have lines bigger than 78 characters. Regards, -jose On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 08:41:51PM -0700, Susan Lesch wrote: > Janet Smith wrote: > > >I have been reading through the W3C mail archives and I must say > >that all this horizontal scrolling is annoying. > >Do you think that using the PRE element for messages is a good idea? > >Obviously, many mail clients do not wrap > >the text. > > Apologies for the delayed reply (I just saw that your question went > unanswered). I believe the idea is to preserve incoming text as typed. > I am cc'ing Jose Kahan in case he has a comment.
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