274057 - When replying to a message, the font and color of the original message is not preserved

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 204974

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Babak Najafi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

I have selected verdana, size 10, blue, for composing (html) messages.  If I
receive a message in times/12/black and try to reply to it, its font and color
change to match my compose settings, i.e., verdana/blue.  Instead, I would
expect the original font and color of the received message be preserved.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set a different font/size/color for composing (html) messages than default
2. Hit reply to a received message
3. 

Actual Results:  
The original font and color of the received message that is copied to the
composed window are not preserved, instead they are changed to match my compose
settings.

Expected Results:  
Preserve the original font and color of the received message.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

> If I receive a message in times/12/black

Are you sure this is how the arriving message is specified?  In my testing, any 
message that actually has <font> tags is quoted with those same tags in place, 
so the coloration carries over.  If the original is unformatted, then the quoted 
text is given your composition preferences.

See bug 204974 comment 6 -- I believe this bug is a duplicate of that one.

Comment 2

[Babak Najafi]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
> Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)
> 
> I have selected verdana, size 10, blue, for composing (html) messages.  If I
> receive a message in times/12/black and try to reply to it, its font and color
> change to match my compose settings, i.e., verdana/blue.  Instead, I would
> expect the original font and color of the received message be preserved.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Set a different font/size/color for composing (html) messages than default
> 2. Hit reply to a received message
> 3. 
> 
> Actual Results:  
> The original font and color of the received message that is copied to the
> composed window are not preserved, instead they are changed to match my compose
> settings.
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Preserve the original font and color of the received message.

(In reply to comment #1)
> > If I receive a message in times/12/black
> 
> Are you sure this is how the arriving message is specified?  In my testing, any 
> message that actually has <font> tags is quoted with those same tags in place, 
> so the coloration carries over.  If the original is unformatted, then the quoted 
> text is given your composition preferences.
> 
> See bug 204974 comment 6 -- I believe this bug is a duplicate of that one.

Sorry for making a duplicate bug.  Believe it or not, I did do a search but
couldn't find it.  Any way, I have verified that the color of the original
message definitely changes to match mine, so it's not preserved.  The fonts seem
to be fixed in release 1.0, but there are still some inconsistencies.  For
example, if I make a bullet list, the size of my font gets larger.  But, perhaps
that's a separate bug.  

In any case, thanks for replying so quickly.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204974 ***

Comment 4

[Mike Kowalski]

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