Chad,

- - The story so far - -

Kelly to Chad:
... html?
-later-
... you were posting in html, until this post.

Jan to Plato:
I fail to see why people insist on posting in HTML (or even write eMails in HTML).

Chad to Kelly:
I still don't understand what the **huge deal is about posting in html***

Chad to Ken Blake:
I fail to see why people go nuts when you post in html...
-later-
"Go nuts" is too strong a word but people are going to jump up and down if you use HTML that much I'm certain.


Neither Kelly nor I "made a huge deal", "went nuts" or "jumped up and down" about posting in HTML.

Also, in my part of the world, the expression "Go nuts" actually seems to consist of two (2) words, not one.


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Chad wrote:
| 1) Why is posting in html a huge deal?

--1. Bandwidth - As has been explained over the years in these newsgroups by Ken Blake (see adjacent excellent reply by him) and
several other people well versed in HTML.

To see the overhead of HTML markup in your post:

1. Message | New Mesage |
2. Format | Rich Text (HTML) | [Edit]
3. Click in the text area, and type a word.
4. [Source]
5. Look at all the pretty colours. This the overhead for HTML.
6. [Edit]
7, Click the [b] button
8. Type another word in the text area.
9. [Source]
10. Look at the result.
11. [Edit]
12. Now view Kelly's webpage again.
13. Copy that snippet of text.
14. Paste that snippet of text.
15. [Source]
16. Look at all the pretty colours. See the overhead for that snippet of text.

--2. "Eye candy" (or for non-Americans, visual pollution) is enjoyed about as much as spam is.

You seem to be obsessed with using StyleXP and other unapproved third-party applications on steroids which trash your XP SP 2.

Start with a clean slate - stop using StyleXP.

This is *not* a forum for publishing academic dissertations.

Nobody likes YOUR choice of font-(family|size|style) or (fore|back)ground-colours.


| I can site (sic)

Consult the "Concise Oxford Dictionary" for the meanings of the following homonyms...
CITE, SIGHT and SITE

To be continued...
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Jan