Re: HTML in emails

Al wrote: > I know this is a bit off-topic; but close enough. > > I'm starting to update the email feature of one of my DB applications > and noticed that it appears most of the fancy emails I receive are > using just plain old, simple html pages, with a note about not being > able to see, go here with a link. > > It use to be that we specified content-type text/html, etc. and sent > both the plain ASCII and the html with boundaries and so forth. Yes, multipart/alternative that was. > Seems like, from my preliminary Google searching, I should not waste > time with the standard's way and just go straight to sending simple > html pages since all modern browsers handle it well. > And, it appears to be the way web is going. > > What are you folks doing? We follow the standard and send both text and html. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (24.5°C)