Re: HTML in emails

On Tuesday, July 06, 2010 07:03:58 am Andre Majorel wrote: > On 2010-07-04 11:43 -0400, Al wrote: > > 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. > > "Browsers" ? "The web" ? I thought it was about email ? > > If it's HTML, I have to decode and save the email to a file from > my MUA and then switch a browser to read it. As you can imagine, I > rarely bother. I agree, actually my filters are setup to send HTML to the trash can. Its a security risk in some cases. > > > 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. > > That is the only sane approach. -- Russ