Re: Printing of HTML emails still impossible.

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcor de>]

Am 25.06.03 09:59 schrieb(en) Brian Stafford:
> Use the HTML parser in libxml2 to build the DOM tree, and implement 
> something that prints a very limited subset of the markup in the tree, 
> say handling only headings, paragraphs and bold, italic and underline.  
> Essentially this would give a result slightly enhanced over plain text.

**That** sounds like a really good compromise!!

> I doubt that it's even necessary to handle images.  Since we don't need 
> to print spam and genuine HTML mails have mostly useful text, I'm 
> guessing that this will suffice for the majority of messages.

Remember that there is still the option to open a HTML part in mozilla (or 
whatever your browser is set to), if someone *really* wants to print those 
buy-viagra-your-life-could-be-a-hollywood-movie-messages with green text 
and pink background...

Cheers, Albrecht.

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