FYI, Ircle started the who color fiasco with IRC. It introduced the cntrl-c header for identifying color codes; Ircle was way ahead of mIRC in terms of rich text formats (bold, underlins, etc). mIRC copied the cntrl-c character for color but used a totally different scheme for color. The problem is, both used ASCII character 3 (cntrl-c, or cntrl-k with mIRC) but the following codes were totally different. mIRC was limited to a 16 color pallete which uess numbers 00-99. Ircle used a single character (such as cntrl-c followed by an A).
Ircle took foreer to adopt the mIRC standard (minus tjhe background colors which aren't availible in the old Mac SDK.). To this day Ircle still doesn't display mIRC background color codes.
As for using HTML based coloring, it's a bad idea. Not only is it a pain to type, but it lengthens the string considerably. What would be nice is if users could select neyond the 16 color pallete.
Oh and pardon my sloppy grammer. I'm in a rush...
