Re: [Pan-users] Reading an HTML posting when using 'old' Pan

[thufir]

On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:34:44 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

>> The bug you refer to was probably that pan didn't display text/html
>> mimetype blocks even as plain text, in the buggy versions.  It probably
>> treated those mime parts as attachments, instead.
> 
> That is not  bug, it is a feature. That is the correct behaviour for any
> application which (rightly, in my opinion) chooses not to render HTML.


I'm sure I'm not the only user to disagree, and I don't want to pile-on, 
but here goes...

The problem is that the "aol" type users are more and more proliferate.  
There will come a tipping point where this feature negatively effects the 
user experience to such a point that users will simply abandon Pan.

I only say that so that everything is transparent.

Gwene is a variation of this situation, which is evolving.  It's 
basically required to parse those with HTML as they are RSS feeds.  I 
know, I know.  I *like* and prefer plain text, but the world marches on.


-Thufir