[Mailman-Developers] Feature Request - Interactive HTML Digests

[Tanstaafl]

On 2010-02-21 3:00 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Tanstaafl writes:
>> On 2/20/2010 10:53 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Here's my MUA reading a digest in my main mail folder INBOX:
> 
> http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/outgoing/INBOX.png
> 
> and here's my MUA reading the messages in the digest:
> 
> http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/outgoing/AUCTeX.png

Yikes... I wouldn't be able to use Emacs then... that is horrible
looking (to me - no offense intended)... ;)

>> See above. No one would force anyone to choose this new digest 
>> version.

> That's not the point.  The point is that in my experience these are 
> minimum requirements for a digest view,

Sorry, maybe I'm dense but I don't know what you mean by 'these' when
you said 'these are minimum requirements'... and reading the previous
messages wasn't helpful either...

> and I don't see how you plan to implement that in portable HTML
> unless you make *really* draconian restrictions on what formats
> people are allowed to post in.

I'm guessing that comment is intended more for the 'Reply' features.
Apparently some of the features I'm asking for should be [relatively]
easily doable (and Barry confirmed this) - like capturing the subject,
and adding the anchors for scrolling down to a message from the message
summary at the top, then back to the top.

Being that I'm not a programmer, maybe I just don't know enough about
what can and can't be done, but my thinking was that the headers of each
message could somehow be 'encapsulated' and hidden (ie, not 'rendered')
in the generated 'Interactive HTML Digest' in such a way that would
allow the more complex 'special features' in this request to work.

This would mean that there would be *no* restrictions, much less
draconian ones, on what formats people can post in. The only issue would
then be what clients can make use of the HTML code that makes the magic
happen.

> It looks like somebody has borrowed Guido's time machine and the
> feature (ie, List-Post in each message in digest) is already
> implemented.  But it's not default yet, so you could ask for that. ;-)

Hmmmm... is there an option somewhere to enable it? I don't see anything
in the Digest Options for any of the lists I manage...

-- 

Charles