Disabling rich formatting

[Fanis Hatzidakis]

Can it be done? It seems when an email is written using HTML
formatting will open up the rich text widget when trying to reply to
it, which requires its time to process and modify the textarea, create
the buttons, etc. Trust me, when you're on dialup with a slow computer
it all counts :)

Any ideas? I can't find a setting for it, or an easy way to disable it.

Fanis

[Ryan Morehart]

Just click the "<< Plain text" link next to the formatting toolbar Gmail creates for you. Your choice to hide it should be saved for the next time. :)

Ryan

[Fanis Hatzidakis]

I'd expect that, yes :) However, I always click the "Plain text" link
and yet next time I reply to a rich-formatting email I'm back in rich
formatting mode.

Fanis

[Fanis Hatzidakis]

To add to this, I think it adds the rich formatting preference to a
cookie, which ofcourse gets deleted when I sign out. It's not a
permanent setting like, for example, the chat module preferences are.
However, I've also noticed it loosing the preference when I jump from
discussion to discussion. I'll keep an eye on this :)

Fanis

[Herchu]

You might be interested in
http://condor.orgmf.com.ar/blog/2006/08/fixed-font-in-gmail.html
though it only works in the Firefox browser.
Regards,
-H.

Fanis Hatzidakis ha escrito:

[Fanis Hatzidakis]

Great link! I was mostly thinking of a javascript snippet that will somehow disable rich formatting mode, but css selectors work to atleast not show the rich formatting widgets. As an added bonus some of those css snippets tweak the fonts a bit making everything alot more readable.

I tried the link you provided, but I think it targetted an older version of Gmail, as the class names don't match up. I searched around and found http://stephan.walter.name/Gmail_CSS_tweaks , which seems to work. It doesn't show the rich-formatting widget around the composition text area, but the email I'm replying to is still in HTML mode.

Ah well. I'll go suggest it to Google. I'd imagine that when they added rich formatting they'd also have a user setting to strip all incoming formatting for the ones that really really want plaintext mode. It's nothing more than a minor issue though.

Fanis

[Herchu]

Fanis Hatzidakis ha escrito:
> Great link! ....

Thanks.

> ... I was mostly thinking of a javascript snippet that will somehow

> disable rich formatting mode, but css selectors work to atleast not show the
> rich formatting widgets. As an added bonus some of those css snippets tweak
> the fonts a bit making everything alot more readable.
>
> I tried the link you provided, but I think it targetted an older version of

> Gmail, as the class names don't match up. ...

Weird. It's my blog and I can assure you that's exactly the code I'm
using right now. I have just double checked it. I'm using GMail in
english and AFAIK have the last bits of GMail (ie, the little links
to Calendar and Spreadsheet up right)

Did you restart Firefox?

Anyway, who knows if everbody around here have the *same* GMail!

> ...I searched around and found

> http://stephan.walter.name/Gmail_CSS_tweaks , which seems to work. It
> doesn't show the rich-formatting widget around the composition text area,
> but the email I'm replying to is still in HTML mode.

I tried the css from him before, but I didn't like to have the richtext
hidden because if someone writes me in html I can't answer her back
in plain text.

So I came up with a very cut down version of the originals.

When I compose, the default is "Plain text". Its font is fixed width,
and the mail is sent as plain text (I've checked the Content header and
it's "text/plain") Same happens if I reply in plain text.

> Ah well. I'll go suggest it to Google. I'd imagine that when they added rich
> formatting they'd also have a user setting to strip all incoming formatting
> for the ones that really really want plaintext mode. It's nothing more than
> a minor issue though.

Yes. Go for it. I've already suggest Google to let user specify a
default behaviour (either plain or rich) and a default font.

Now, I want a CSS for Google Groups!
;-)