On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:24:47 -0500, doob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
offered us these
thoughts:
>but that's one of those weird things that I wonder about.
>
>Why should WebTV be able to do all kinds of gifs and colors...and
>computers get messed up?
>
>It doesn't seem right.
>
>(I sent an e-mail to my laptop and saw the pic...go figure.)
>
>It's Adam or Ryan for SURE!
It's not a matter of PC vs WebTV, it's a matter of what client one
uses to read Usenet. Some clients are HTML enabled, and some are not.
Some are optional, so it becomes the user's choice.
Remember, Usenet {like email} was plain text only for a long, long
time, and especially on Usenet plain text remains the norm.
Displaying gif's and colors and such requires the use of HTML tags, so
that "<b>bold</b>" means the word "bold" between the tags would be
rendered in bold type. If ones client does not render HTML, however,
one would see seven characters in addition to a non-emphasized "bold,"
making it a little harder to find the intended text.
There are tags for embedding a picture, audio clips, etc. A great
deal of what happens on a Web page is simply HTML and multimedia
resources.
Most Usenet clients are for PC's/windows, and most of them were
developed long before people put HTML in Usenet messages. The same
goes for email clients. WebTV, we note has "Web" in its name -- one
word from the famous WWW. The Web is HTML based, so it isn't
surprising that WebTV's client tends to treat all of the Internet like
the WWW by using HTML everywhere.
When someone's Usenet does not render HTML,the result is:
>------=_NextPart_000_000C_01C8A7B0.2B2EA8E0
>Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
>
> <doob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message =
>news:1718-48136F16-234@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I thought that JP was the lock.
>
> Do more people watch TAR than Survivor?
>
> Hasn't Survivor been on longer?
>
> =
>_________________________________________________________________________=
>__________________
That is, all of the HTML code is displayed as plain text. Or perhaps
some clients simply don't display anything.
I don't let my Agent render HTML, because that gives the poster too
much control over my 'puter. The same holds for email messages, which
I receive through Eudora -- with HTML rendering disabled. Sometimes I
receive an email with absolutely no message body. I have a dry smile
as I delete the message.
This might be too much information, or not enough. But maybe it
helps.
--
Bob
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