Maintain previous type-in state (font size/face/colour) when clicking in empty paragraph or elsewhere outside a font tag
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(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)
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(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: jorgk-bmo, Unassigned)
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Comment 1•8 years ago
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Comment 6•8 years ago
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Comment 8•8 years ago
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Comment 12•6 years ago
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If I may say so, I am glad of the evidence shown on this page that a Thunderbird developer made an effort to fix this problem.
It is a shame that the bug still exists and that work on it (judging by this page) seems to have stalled.
One of the comments above says that the problem is hard to fix. OK. Yet, what's going wrong here is something really basic - Thunderbird is not letting me type, or return to typing, in the font that I have chosen. Moreover, I did not find, last time I tried it, that switching to 'Body text' mode obviated the problem. This problem - together admittedly with some others - make it a pain to use Thunderbird and sometimes results in e-mail formatting for which I feel the need to apologise to the recipient.
Perhaps now that Thunderbird is recruiting extra staff, this problem - which, in one form or another, seems to stretch back the better part of a decade - can be fixed.
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Comment 13•6 years ago
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Currently no plans for fixing this, mostly because the problems stem from Mozilla's HTML editor.
Comment 14•6 years ago
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It is disappointing that there are no plans to fix the problem. Users of MS Word or Outlook wouldn't put up with a fundamental bug like this.
To avoid the worst of the problem, whenever I create a new email in Thunderbird I enter "Hi xxx. Return. Return. Regards, me." Then I go back to editing the body of the email. It'll still often mess-up if I switch to another application and come back to the email but I have to put up with that.
I've got so used to doing that I even find myself doing it at work when using Outlook!
Comment 15•6 years ago
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(In reply to Jorg K (GMT+1) from comment #13)
Currently no plans for fixing this, mostly because the problems stem from Mozilla's HTML editor.
If Mozilla's HTML editor is bad, we should consider developing a state of the art HTML editor for Thunderbird.
The requirements to be met are very simple:
- the editor should offer WYSIWYG as well as HTML source code
- the HTML should be stylable with CSS
- it should be side-effect free
The first point guarantees easy editing and full control over the content, the second point allows the styling of the HTML in Thunderbird's settings (default font xyz) as well as full flexibility for power users and the third point should be the result from point one and two.
In Thunderbird we do not have a side-effect free editor: the fonts change arbitrarily, I cannot enforce a certain design and typography and editing mails from other senders is sometimes a nightmare.
Just my two cents.
Comment 18•5 years ago
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Hi Jorg,
As you have many complains on this subject and that a solution is possible (new publisher) why not launch a development and whether to solicit users via a crowdfunding platform ???
Cordially
Jean Claude
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Comment 19•5 years ago
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The problem is that the TB Write/compose window is controlled be the Mozilla editor which is a complicated piece of code and not under Thunderbird control. It would need a very skilled person to tackle this bug here. An alternative would be to replace the HTML editor in the compose window by some other "standard" HTML editor.
I admit that losing the font under certain circumstances it inconvenient, but this case can easily be detected and corrected manually.
Comment 20•5 years ago
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No it's not always possible to detect the defect.
I had seen messages with no différence on fonts when you click "SEND" and you discover the différence when you receive the answer!
To have a correct result in terms of font, it is necessary to intervene manually systematically.
I understood that the problem is due to differences between publisher; the precaution to take is to make a message without being interrupted!
TB is not interruptible!
Comment 21•5 years ago
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Jcgh78
re :I had seen messages with no différence on fonts when you click "SEND" and you discover the différence when you receive the answer!
But do you see the differences in your original saved 'sent' message located in the 'Sent' folder?
Note: If responding - reply - to a message that has hardcoded css html in the received email which the sender included, then it can influence the font when replying.
As it is not always known what fonts are available on all computers and as users can choose their own font when viewing/writing emails, it is perhaps a better solution to not include hardcoded html on font in the email.
Updated•2 years ago
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