- From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:38:37 -0500
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: robert@ocallahan.org, Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
2010/1/13 fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>: > On 01/06/2010 02:29 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Giuseppe Bilotta >> <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com <mailto:giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> If UAs make an effort instead to implement things properly, >> working around broken sites with something similar to the Quirks mode >> or other workaround used to deal with messy pages, it can be fixed. >> >> I considered making pt non-physical in quirks mode only. However, given >> that HTML email commonly contains font sizes in pt, I expect that there >> are mailing list archives that present such email in standards mode. I >> don't see how such archives can really be fixed, even if there was a >> will to fix them. > > I suspect that web archives of HTML emails aren't a very important use > case here. If they're advertisements, then they might break, but that's > ok because how many people really want to view web archives of email > advertisements? If they're written by people, then chances are they > aren't that dependent on the exact font size since the vast majority > of people writing email just use flowed text and not fancy layouts. I'm a bit puzzled why would email advertisements would come into mind here. When email archives are mentioned I think of mailing list archives, with the not-so-just-occasional HTML mail that got sent. I think we're talking about mailing list postings here, and nothing to do with advertisements. -- cheers, -ambrose
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