[dev] Re: [imp] mail.yahoo-esque "Block HTML graphics in email messages from being downloaded" functionality?

Amith Varghese amith at xalan.com
Fri Mar 14 17:25:09 PST 2003


> Thanks for the patch.  I'm going to commit the patch now and we can deal
> with how we want to display the blocked images a bit later.

One idea is to make this a preference with a default, but allow the user to 
change it.  But i'll wait till I see the graphic that get done.

> 
> Just a quick note - since this is an HTML specific action, it doesn't make
> much sense to add something to the summary line (e.g. an image icon next to
> the strip_attachment icon).  The summary line should be reserved for actions
> that can be done on ALL MIME types.  Instead, this is exactly the sort of
> thing that should be completely built into the particular MIME driver.  This
> is what I have done with your code.

Thanks, I think this makes much more sense.  I forgot that I could do that :)  
That's also why I asked on the list but no one suggested it.  Thanks for 
committing this.

Amith



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