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

[Steven D'Aprano]

Duncan wrote:
> Rui Maciel posted on Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:07:01 +0000 as excerpted:
>
> > On 02/09/2012 12:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > > I really don't understand the choice of displaying HTML attachments
> > > in-line as raw text. It seems to be saying "Screw you, I dislike HTML
> > > posts and so will deliberately make them as obnoxious and annoying as
> > > possible in the hope that Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, IBM, etc. will
> > > change their mind about supporting HTML mail in their mail clients". As
> > > if that's ever going to happen.
> > Do you happen to know any Usenet standard that supports HTML?
>
> Note that what he said doesn't /necessarily/ mean it must be displayed as 
> fully-parsed HTML.  There's a couple other options as well.

Good grief. I certainly didn't intend to suggest that Pan provide its own HTML 
rendering engine! If I did, I apologize for the confusion.


> One option would be to simply treat HTML parts as attachments.  They'd be 
> saved when the attachments were saved and listed on the attachments 
> line.  Additionally, when save text is chosen, the entire raw article 
> would be saved, all parts included just as they appear in the raw 
> message, just as they are now.

I thought that's what I was suggesting.


> Another option that would fit in nicely with the first would be to add an 
> open in browser option.  The existing browser setting that's activated 
> when a URL is clicked would be opened to display the html part in the 
> tool already designed to handle html in a secure and efficient way, the 
> browser.

That would also be good.


> Yet another option, and the way claws-mail handles html, is to simply 
> strip out the html tags, leaving only the plain text.  I know how well 
> that works because I recently switched to claws-mail (from kmail, when it 
> akonadified) as my mail client, in part BECAUSE it only displays plain 
> text.  (It also has the open in browser functionality mentioned above, 
> but I have that option turned off.)

The mutt email client passes HTML to links, which generates the plain text 
view. It works very well, and avoids re-inventing the wheel.



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Steven