On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:52 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:01:50 CST, Jorge Amodio said:
Ohh yeah, now we can send sort of a telegram with multiple fonts and colors almost from anywhere... At least it doesn't do <blink>BLINK</blink> ;)
Oh SMS/MMS do a few things that make blink tags look utterly benign... http://www.dreamfabric.com/sms/alert.html May be possible to send as a flash message that immediately displays blinking, and that depending on phone, the recipient doesn't get any option to control or save, e.g. forced to read before doing anything else, no history or storage of message text once read. But mail readers with javascript and animated GIFs still have them beat overall. E-Mail readers / text message readers epidemically trust the sender too much sometimes, thinking the recipient would rather be annoyed by more rich content (or pwned) than disappointed that rich content shows as plain text. -- -J