[imp] Re: HTML composition in non-IE browsers...

[Lord Apollyon]

> Let me get this straight.  The piece of code thats been in active
> development for months that we designed for imp may not even be 
> considered for inclusion because  it doesn't include support for a
> Microsoft browser?  Hummmph.

Nobody said that.

What was said is that if this functionality is something which cannot be
bifurcated via browser-detection techniques (already present in Horde/IMP),
then its value is questionable, vis-a-vis, one step forward and ten steps back.
 
> If thats the case, the 3 of us working on this code will just keep it to
> ourselves then. In fact, we'd rather our code not be run in Windows out
> of principal. 

That is entirely your choice - but exposing petulance to a larger audience
is a brazen act of communal immaturity.

> We aspire to write code that serves the Linux and the BSD community. 

A zealot.  Has it ever occurred to you to consider the issue isn't as
black+white as you perceive it to be?  *I* wouldn't touch M$ software with a
twenty parsec barge-pole.  But my PROBLEM is a simple one, which probably
eluded your consideration because of your narrow world-view.

My organisation is required to serve a global range of very specialised bank
customers who trade primary and secondary debt issues (your credit cards,
home loans, and auto loans were most likely capitalised by one of these).  

These are organisations in the bloody stone age, and who firewall and filter
all outbound web-accesses for their employees as a default policy. 
Furthermore, each and every END-USER of a new banking customer of this
trading application who wishes to connect to us, subjects us through a
security evaluation - simply to allow two or three syndicated loan employees
to connect to our site.

You have absolutely no idea of how stuffed up and constipated these
organisations are - they formalise their system configs on a specific
web-browser, specific platforms, right down to versions and service packs. 
None of their employees are allowed to install even a "Hello, World" program
onto their computers.  All of them to an organisation use Internet Exploder.
The choice of platform and web-browser platform isn't entirely free for
users to make, or as capriciously chosen as you make it sound.

The point is, if your patch is *INCLUSIVE* and doesn't torch existing
functionality for the most commonly used web-browser, I am sure it will be
warmly accepted.  [This must surely be sounding like a chorus by now?]

For *my* purposes, I would rip out html composition functionality anyway -
since inline-HTML is a pox upon the Internet, in my
not-so-humble-and-equally-zealoted opinion.  So the issue's all moot to me.

=Apollyon=