Re: HTML in emails

On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:43:59 -0400, 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. > > 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? In general, I simply do _not_ read "fancy emails". Alpine 2.00 here. I *browse* with a browser -- nothing more. html in email seems to be all about eye candy -- not content. I don't waste time looking for the 'content' in an email where it appears more effort was applied to the dancing elephants and flying pigs than was put into the message. Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | linux 38.24N 104.55W | @ config.com | Jonesy | OS/2 * Killfiling google & XXXXbanter.com: jonz.net/ng.htm