I think I understand the issue now. I will write something in the informational document to be produced in conjunction with the standard, draft-ietf-mhtml-info-09.txt.
Question: What should be done?
(1) Should the e-mailer of the recipient be set to use 9 pt as a base font for plain text messages, but 12 pt as a base font for HTML-formatted messages?
(2) Or should the base font size for the sender be different when reading and writing HTML?
(3) Or should the base font size for the sender be different when writing web pages in HTML than when writing e-mail in HTML?
Alternative (3) does not seem right, since we have intentionally designed MHTML to make it easy to have the identical document sent by e-mail and provided on the web. Alternative (2) does also not seem nice, since a person should be able to edit HTML in WYSIWYG showing it as it will look like when seen by recipients. So (1) seems to me to be the right solution. If a person wants 12 pt as a base font for reading HTML pages, why would not that person want the same font when reading HTML-formatted e-mail? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacob Palme <[log in to unmask]> (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme Between 26-31 June use phone No. +46-8-664 77 48 not +46-8-16 16 67
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