[FFML] A thought on the future of the FFML

[The Wanderer]

On 06/26/2013 11:27 AM, Arthur Hansen wrote:

> And yet we still don't have italics, bold and underline, some very
> very key things of normal texts.

That depends on your mail client.

In my preferred and recommended mail client (Thunderbird), *asterisks*
are displayed with boldface, /slashes/ with italics, and _underscores_
with underlining. I think even some forum software supports that as markup.

I don't know how many other mail clients support similar functionality,
but I know it's possible.

Some (many?) mail clients even support receiving an E-mail which
contains two copies of the message, one plain text and the other HTML,
and selecting which one to display based on configuration settings. We
might be able to take advantage of that by having the
post-to-the-mailing-list-from-the-Web-forum software automatically
convert appropriate markup to suitable basic HTML, and then send both
copies; recipients set to accept HTML mail would see the generated HTML
version, and recipients set for plain text would see the plain-text
version (including the markup from which the HTML was generated). That's
a bit farther out there, though.

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