Re: Another balsa bug... (was Re: crashes)

[Jules Bean <jmlb2 hermes cam ac uk>]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 06:58:04AM -0800, Matthew Guenther wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Jules Bean wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 03:39:56PM +0100, Pawel Salek wrote:
> > > 
> > > Well, the good news is that I have it almost done :-)). But there is this
> > > 'almost' hurdle so I agree with Matthew: we should fix the simple bugs and
> > > wait with such a major code reorganization to the next release.
> > 
> > Hmm.
> > 
> > Can I throw in 2 cents here?
> > 
> > I'd like to see the inline display method as an option, especially for text
> > and image types of attachments.  To be honest, when I saw balsa inlining an
> > image that someone had sent me, I though it was brilliant... much better
> > than an attachments widget! Maybe I'm alone in this view though..
> > 
> 
> I think it's pretty cool myself, and had an identical reaction when I first
> saw it, however with time I've realized two things:
> 
> i) I don't get sent pictures that often :)
> ii)  It causes a lot of other problems
> 
> So although it's cool, until there's a good way of implementing it
> without breaking more critical features like displaying the text of
> a message, I would vote to remove it.

Hmm.

The thing is, attachments are a misnomer.  Really, we're just talking
about multi-part MIME.  multi-part MIME is used for a variety of
different purposes --- for example, some MUAs use it for forwards,
resulting in a multi-part MIME doc where all the parts are
text/plain.  The current implementation handles that elegantly.

Presumably, a charset aware MUA might use multiple text parts when the 
different parts have different charsets.  That also would look better
inlined.

Unfortunately, I don't understand the current canvas code well enough
(or at all!) to suggest how hard it is to fix the current font-related 
problem, but my guess is it can't be too hard..

Jules

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