Comments on: Finding a middle between HTML and plain text E-mail http://www.tssci-security.com/archives/2006/12/29/finding-a-middle-between-html-and-plain-text-e-mail/ top secret/secure computing information Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:49:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Marcin http://www.tssci-security.com/archives/2006/12/29/finding-a-middle-between-html-and-plain-text-e-mail/#comment-39 Marcin Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:49:46 +0000 http://www.tssci-security.com/archives/2006/12/29/finding-a-middle-between-html-and-plain-text-e-mail/#comment-39 Rich Text Format is an entirely different specification than "enriched text." It's spec is defined <a target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ac57de32-17f0-4b46-9e4e-467ef9bc5540&displaylang=en" rel="nofollow">here</a> Rich Text Format is an entirely different specification than “enriched text.”

It’s spec is defined here

]]> By: Michael http://www.tssci-security.com/archives/2006/12/29/finding-a-middle-between-html-and-plain-text-e-mail/#comment-38 Michael Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:58:04 +0000 http://www.tssci-security.com/archives/2006/12/29/finding-a-middle-between-html-and-plain-text-e-mail/#comment-38 And the problem with rich text is it brings MS Word into the mix, with its own set of problems. Simple text editors for PC's should be like Textedit for the Mac...you get your bold, your underline, your italics, but you don't achieve any of it with the side affects of an app that can make system calls or inject code into other running processes. Thats one of the downsides of Word and IE being written by the same folks who write the OS. Their apps are too familiar and too dependent on functions that should be reserved for the OS and not overlying apps. And the problem with rich text is it brings MS Word into the mix, with its own set of problems.

Simple text editors for PC’s should be like Textedit for the Mac…you get your bold, your underline, your italics, but you don’t achieve any of it with the side affects of an app that can make system calls or inject code into other running processes. Thats one of the downsides of Word and IE being written by the same folks who write the OS. Their apps are too familiar and too dependent on functions that should be reserved for the OS and not overlying apps.

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