James Bensley wrote:
On 4 June 2010 14:31, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk wrote:
Or why use html in the first place ?
Because it allows you to present text and parts of conversation, questions, responses etc clearly and allows you to make key points more visible etc.
So does the proper use of language. Authors have been using the method for millennia.
Ultimately I don't mind using plain text but HTML is often advantageous.
Not when received here, it isn't: HTML is turned off at all times.
However, in this "mordern day and age", I would of
of?
thought that within a couple of years (max?) all lists could be HTML and there would be no need to use plain text? (Purely based on the advances in mobile computing, the price of data transfers coming down etc).
</don's flame proof vest>
As well you might. It doesn't really have anything to do with price: it's all to do with a common standard, and while M$ did try to hijack the internet when they discovered that it *WAS* going to come to something, that's no reason for all users to follow the HTML-in-posts non-compliance like so many sheep.
And that's not just my preference for 'the good old days': HTML is so insecure.