[FFML] A thought on the future of the FFML

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Mythril Moth
<mythrilmoth at mythrilmoth.net>wrote:

> * The Web forum should display exactly one post per page, just as you
>>   don't get the body of more than one E-mail displayed at a time.
>>
>
> I don't necessarily agree with this. The ability to follow and review a
> conversation quickly and easily would be a better fit.


I can see an entire thread (all replies to the same
subject) in one view through my email client.  So
apparently this differs from client to client, and it
is the established norm for Web forums (because
it is more usable).


>
>  * The post-presentation requirements (plain text vs. full HTML, or some
>>   intermediate level of formatting) should be the same for the Web forum
>>   as on the mailing list.
>>
>
> So you're recommending bringing the mailing list into the present by
> leaving it in the past?
>

Wanderer has a point here.  For the most part, if
we're to make this transition, it needs to be the
*exact same* content between mailing list and
forum, and that include markup (or lack thereof).

A usable balance might well be to adopt the
simple markup standard:
*This is shown as bold in the Web forum.*
/This is shown as italic in the Web forum./
_This is shown as underlined in the Web forum._
http://links.likethis.com/are/treated/as/hyperlinks
* This is a bullet point: note the post-star space.

Would we need much more than that?

That said, replying via Web forum might
specifically not have a WYSIWYG editor, to
reinforce that the value of your post is in the text,
not the markup.  (Also set it to 72, or perhaps 80,
columns and auto-add newlines as necessary to
any lines that go beyond that.)
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