Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0

Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> : We still have no good rule to detect ASCII-art,
> Marking a paragraph as preformatted text if it contains more than two
> (or maybe three) consecutive spaces sounds like a good idea. You may
> wish to handle indentation separately, though.

I like this rule. I think, I'll add [TAB]s and won't let it trigger on
one occurance of "  " to allow one typo. We will have the problem of
messages from people inserting a doubled space between sentences being
displayed monospaced, but I think, that's OK.

But I don't know, if I'll have time to implement it, because I need to
switch the whole paragraph to pre, what is not so easy with our code.

> Actually, I think giving the user a choice to view everything as
> preformatted text (with automatic links and such still applied) would
> be a very useful feature. I know I'd use it.

I forgot to mention: You not only have the choice to do so, it is the
default. We need the pre detection only for the case, the user decided
to view his messages in a proprotional font.

-- 
Ben Bucksch
http://www.bucksch.org

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