300810 - Better use of color with nested cited text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 851022

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Raj Premkumar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412
Build Identifier: version 1.0 (20041206)

When reading a message with multiple levels of cited text, I think the readability could be improved by 
matching the color used to say "On <date>, <person> wrote:" with the color used for the actual words 
written by this person. This is especially helpful for citations with 3 or more levels, and that have been 
split up into many pieces by others' comments. If a message has "John Doe said:" in brown, then I'll 
know that all subsequent brown pieces of text are written by John Doe.

For messages that get mangled during the course of a long email discussion this can get misleading, 
especially if someone deletes an extra ">"; and HTML email might be another pain to deal with; 
however, I think it's worth doing.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90315 ***

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

Reduping for Thunderbird's version of that issue.