[Coco] ASCII art in mail/news clients

[Robert Gault]

Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
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> Original Message -----
> From: Robert Gault
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 6:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] ASCII art in mail/news clients
> 
> 
>>Here is more information about Mozilla and emoticons (smileys.) For ease
> 
> of
> adding these to e-mail, you need to select html e-mail composition.
> 
> Interestingly your post appearing as HTML stops the display of emoticons by
> "QE-QuoteFix" as well as any other posts with attachments. So if the reader
> is using Mozilla to read the post in HTML then they see the emoticons
> graphics. Others using different HTML aware readers do not. Correct?
> 
>   class=moz-smiley-s3><SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN
>   class=moz-smiley-s4><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN
>   class=moz-smiley-s5><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN
>   class=moz-smiley-s6><SPAN> :-[ </SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN
> 
> Mozilla needs all this when        :-[  will do just as good?
> 

The message was sent both ways straight text and html. The text version 
just has ascii art. The html does not stop the icon in Mozilla but 
clearly seems specialized (class=moz-smiley-s4) as you found out. Seems 
a strange way to do it but perhaps smileys are not part of the standard.

Normally I don't send html mail but it was the only way to access the 
built-in smiley list.