BTW: I can, and do, change it for my own email client. But if I
send email in plaintext, it looks ugly to those who don't do that with
theirs. I work directly with the users of the software I write,
so much of my mail is sent to people who don't like to fiddle with
their computer settings of any sort.
(I've been asked before to change the font of an email that was sent by
an automatic script in plaintext. I did what he asked by changing
the script to generate HTML email.)
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RE: Hotmail formatting WTF
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RE: Hotmail formatting WTF
I would be a plaintext email fan if all those mail readers wouldn't
insist on showing plaintext mail in a big ugly fixed-width font (on
Windows, usually some flavor of Courier). Outlook, Thunderbird, everybody does
this by default. I send HTML mail for that reason, even though I
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RE: Smart enough to tell me what to do, but not smart enought to do it
I can sort of understand why it asked me to enter today's date.
It's trying to imitate a signature line, where you "sign and
date". In this case, I was being asked to enter my name (which I
already entered) and the current date, when if this was paper it would
be the "sign here" spot. It does seem rather pointless online,
since the point of a signature is not the letters themselves but the
way the penmanship looks. There's no penmanship on a web form,
and everybody can type my name the same.
Come to think of it, I'll bet pixietheelf is right...it was probably
comparing whatever I typed to exactly "7/7/2005" and not parsing it as
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RE: Smart enough to tell me what to do, but not smart enought to do it
Dammit!
I guess I'm not smart "enought" to proofread first... -
Smart enough to tell me what to do, but not smart enought to do it
Going to sign up for an online broker, I got to an "electronic
signature" page where I was asked to enter my name and today's date in
lieu of a physical signature. Today is July 7th, so I entered
"07/07/2005". When I hit "submit", I got a little javascript
dialog box that said:
You must enter the date as follows
7/7/2005
If the javascript code on the page is smart enough that it knows how to
correct my entry, why can't it just change it itself before submitting?