FSFE-defined coding standards?

Eike Rathke erack at fsfe.org
Wed Feb 10 11:36:40 UTC 2021


Hi Valerio,

On Wednesday, 2021-02-10 09:13:35 +0100, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:

> On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 22:40 +0100, Eike Rathke wrote:
> > Before discussing coding standards we should rule out bad Mail User
> > Agents that produce totally unusable text/plain from text/html in
> > their
> > multipart/alternative:
> 
> I don't consider those Mail User Agents as bad, producing text/plain
> from text/html is a security feature in some mail clients, for example
> in Evolution.

You misunderstood. I didn't say that text/plain is a bad thing, but the
text/plain that your MUA generated for the text/html is catastrophic,
resulting in unlegible and even wrong "source code" for people who do
not use HTML mailers.

  Eike

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