[Bug 86423] Ability To Reply To HTML Email With Same HTML Format As It Was Received

JoeInMN ickyslug at aol.com
Tue Mar 8 10:33:08 GMT 2011


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86423


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--- Comment #209 from JoeInMN <ickyslug aol com>  2011-03-08 11:32:40 ---
Average non-techie user here. As I have no coding experience whatsoever in this
environment, my thinking here may be completely off base, and I will be happy
to be enlightened by those who actually know what they are talking about.
Anyway:

I'm not sure I understand exactly why this feature would be so complicated to
implement. An email comes to you in HTML format, and Kmail displays it as such.
You hit "Reply," and the composer accepts HTML formatting and displays your
formatted text as you enter it. Kmail should not have to actually do anything
extra to *get* the inserted Reply text into HTML format; it came in that way,
and is just being inserted into an editor already capable of understanding and
displaying HTML on the fly. Kmail must be actively *doing* something extra to
convert the original HTML into plain text, invoking routines that strip out the
tags and replace them with * and / and whatnot. Is it really such a big deal to
just stop the program from doing that, and instead of doing the extra work to
process the existing HTML into plain text, just have it insert what it *already
has* into your reply? Ideally with a checkbox that lets you strip the HTML or
not at your discretion? It doesn't seem to me like it would involve any major
start-from-scratch code rewrite or anything. But like I say, this is coming
just from my own ignorance of what might be involved.

Add me to the roster of users who really like Kmail/Kontact, but quite honestly
can't use it because of this issue.

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