[JDEV] Rich Text in Messages
Stephen D. Williams
sdw at lig.net
Tue Dec 19 17:54:50 CST 2000
Todd Bradley wrote:
>
> Michael F Lin wrote:
> ...
>
> I'll admit here that I am biased against rich text messages, though. I'm a
> relative newcomer to IM, having only used 3 or 4 systems for about three
> years (not counting Unix talk and IRC). But even though almost all IM
> systems I've used allowed it, I've never used rich text. My feeling is that
> if I'm spending time making my message pretty with colors and fonts and bold
> and underlines, it's no longer an instant message. When I'm concerned about
> appearance and formatting, I'll use email. But maybe I'm not a typical
> user. Anyone have any real statistics on what percent of the IM traffic in
> the world uses rich text?
About 90%+ is rich text capable (AIM, ICQ, etc.). A large percentage of that
actually uses it occasionally.
>
.....
> > pinch pennies can cause permanent and irreparable damage to
> > your mindshare.
>
> Well, if rich text is so universally essential for a good user experience,
> then why isn't it the default message format? Shouldn't it be?
It should be. There should be a standard syntax and clients should strip
anything they don't want to handle. Session based compression should be used
to allow bandwidth to be minimized.
> Todd.
sdw
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