[Design] Rich text in Chandler desktop

[Grant Baillie]

On 29 Sep, 2006, at 14:34, Brian Kirsch wrote:

>> That's the "custom XML format" that gets me worried: since we're  
>> planning to use that in email editing, we can't really send around  
>> custom XML. How would that be displayed in other email clients?  
>> AFAIK, RTF is the way to go for basic email fancy work (bkirsch,  
>> please confirm or deny, I'm really not sure here...). Is there a  
>> method to convert back and forth between this format and RTF?
>
> Yes, RTF or HTML are the standard formats. For Chandler, I would  
> prefer to leverage the HTML format ala Thunderbird. For all rich  
> text messages (HTML / RTF) I will also send an alternate part that  
> contains a plain text version for legacy clients.

Do people still use these legacy clients, BTW? I mean, even Pine can  
do some kind of richish text display IIRC :).

Anyway, +1 to HTML over text/enriched (I assume that -- RFC 1896 --  
is what y'all meant, rather than RTF, which is a different thing  
entirely, and not used much in the email world).

--Grant