On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:34:44 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The bug you refer to was probably that pan didn't display text/html
mimetype blocks even as plain text, in the buggy versions. It probably
treated those mime parts as attachments, instead.
That is not bug, it is a feature. That is the correct behaviour for any
application which (rightly, in my opinion) chooses not to render HTML.
I'm sure I'm not the only user to disagree, and I don't want to pile-on,
but here goes...
The problem is that the "aol" type users are more and more proliferate.
There will come a tipping point where this feature negatively effects the
user experience to such a point that users will simply abandon Pan.
I only say that so that everything is transparent.
Gwene is a variation of this situation, which is evolving. It's
basically required to parse those with HTML as they are RSS feeds. I
know, I know. I *like* and prefer plain text, but the world marches on.