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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> writes:
> In lugnet.publish, William R. Ward wrote:
> > How is this going to be rendered on a text-based newsreader?
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> Unless someone go totally nuts with crazy table stuff, it should look just fine.
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> > Not everyone is using a GUI for NNTP you know!
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> Yup! FTX was designed from day one (back in the summer of 1999) to be
> entirely readable as plain text. In fact, here is an example of an article
> I posted in 1999 that looks like plain text but is actually FTX if you look
> closely. :-)
Yes, but the problem is that not all FTX extensions work as well as
others. For example the set and part database items, polls, etc. will
not display properly on a plaintext system. For those you should
convert the FTX code to an URL that points to the referenced content.
But the main issue is that people posting FTX in their messages will
be more likely to assume that others will be reading it on the web
interface and it will slowly but surely become impossible to use a
text-based NNTP client with Lugnet. It's a slippery slope situation,
IMO.
The only way to prevent the NNTP interface becoming obsolete would be
to use Content-type: multipart/alternative with text/plain (raw FTX)
and text/html (converted as you see on the web interface) forms. But
that still rules out text-based newsreaders...
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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| (...) What if lines beginning with "#" in FTX denoted comments, and the URLs of referenced resources were summarized in a comment block? In other words, if someone said [LEGOSet 6954_1] and [LDrawPart 3004:4] it would append something like this: # (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Unless someone go totally nuts with crazy table stuff, it should look just fine. (...) Yup! FTX was designed from day one (back in the summer of 1999) to be entirely readable as plain text. In fact, here is an example of an article I posted in (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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