Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Jun 5, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Terry Hancock wrote:
And so long as us curmudgeons insist on text-only email, that's likely to persist!
The truth is a web forum is much more suited to sharing graphical content, and that's what I like about the idea.
Well... that might be more of a matter of minor degrees.
So far, most of the people I've talked to requesting forums haven't brought up anything substantive that others can't get already. I've even used graphics-heavy, full HTML multipart mixed MIME newsgroups before supporting artistic communities (NNTP and all). In fact, with a nice NNTP client I can usually get better threading and faster reading than through a web interface.
That's not the point. The point is that on usenet or a mailing list, you will have unending complaints if you use HTML posts. On the web, HTML is expected.
It's not a technical problem, it's a social one.
Cheers, Terry