Mozilla punishes me for setting plain text as my default mail format. I
just installed the latest Mozilla hoping it would fix this, and it didn't.
If you set the preference to compose e-mail in plain text, you have to
reconfigure to compose that occasional HTML message. This is because
they take away the Options > Format menu choice, which under that
circumstance should offer HTML as an option at the single-message level
-- an option I should be able to set as an exception since normally I
use plain text.
The auto-detect feature is cool, but I don't want to create an HTML
message just by mistakenly hitting Ctrl-B or something. There should be
a mode in which HTML is available at any time, but with the "safety"
firmly engaged until I release it. I use Outlook all day at work, with
plain text as my default. I tend even to switch to plain text when
replying to rich text messages, but Outlook gives me the option of
switching *either* way. It gags me to say Outlook is better than
Mozilla in any respect, but well, there you go.
The flaw here is that Mozilla interprets turning off the HTML default as
"Deny any knowledge of HTML until I reconfigure". They should have
that, but as a separate option.
I think there is some sort of geeky monastic hair-shirt schtick in play
here: we are smart enough to implement rich text, yet strong enough to
never use it. ;-)
Vic
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