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Mike Gale
I've heard about using WORD as a rendering and presentation engine in the
next Outlook. I've also heard that there is overwhelmingly positive user
feedback on this idea.
The world clearly has very different people. I think it's an awful idea.
(I've been waiting and genuinely expecting office to get fixed. I thought
this release might be it but obviously no luck. Maybe never is my current
view.)
I almost always use plain text in e-mails. In part because the HTML editor
produces such rubbish. (I have no desire to be the originator of such
horrible markup. This is the MSHTML editor, WORD continues to be orders of
magnitude worse.)
If I send an HTML email I compose it entirely outside of Outlook or Word,
then bring it in. I also don't look at the source inside Outlook as just
looking at it might foul the markup. This is an unpleasant exercise to
follow so is seldom done.
Some corollaries:
1) Word takes excellent quality markup, adds a large pile of mso:... markup
and destroys the good features. I'm thinking text that resizes, style sheets
that print well... gone. It then outputs horrible markup, usually 80% larger
than the original, at least. So a single round trip destroys features of a
document, increases it's size and fills it with unwanted markup. No cigar
there.
2) I won't go on.
I can't believe that backward compatibility drags you down so low. Please
give a unified rendering experience. (Why should HTML emails be crippled to
the point of unusability.) Also a decent editing tool. Trident (as I
understand it) was a noble idea that has withered away through neglect.
Expression Web is getting there, at last. Expression should be the minimum
standard across MS HTML editing.
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next Outlook. I've also heard that there is overwhelmingly positive user
feedback on this idea.
The world clearly has very different people. I think it's an awful idea.
(I've been waiting and genuinely expecting office to get fixed. I thought
this release might be it but obviously no luck. Maybe never is my current
view.)
I almost always use plain text in e-mails. In part because the HTML editor
produces such rubbish. (I have no desire to be the originator of such
horrible markup. This is the MSHTML editor, WORD continues to be orders of
magnitude worse.)
If I send an HTML email I compose it entirely outside of Outlook or Word,
then bring it in. I also don't look at the source inside Outlook as just
looking at it might foul the markup. This is an unpleasant exercise to
follow so is seldom done.
Some corollaries:
1) Word takes excellent quality markup, adds a large pile of mso:... markup
and destroys the good features. I'm thinking text that resizes, style sheets
that print well... gone. It then outputs horrible markup, usually 80% larger
than the original, at least. So a single round trip destroys features of a
document, increases it's size and fills it with unwanted markup. No cigar
there.
2) I won't go on.
I can't believe that backward compatibility drags you down so low. Please
give a unified rendering experience. (Why should HTML emails be crippled to
the point of unusability.) Also a decent editing tool. Trident (as I
understand it) was a noble idea that has withered away through neglect.
Expression Web is getting there, at last. Expression should be the minimum
standard across MS HTML editing.
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...5226f37a2&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general