> Jeroen van Aart wrote: > > I ask, what is wrong with good old linefeeds and ">" to show > quoted text? If you need nicely formatted text attach a pdf > or something. All email is plain text though. It's how a > particular client interprets certain codes that we can > (ab)use stuff like html, or attachments. > > This may help answer your question, I am sure one can find > many arguments for html email: > > http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml > http://grimthing.com/archives/2004/04/10/why-html-email-is-bad/ > http://www.lemis.com/email.html > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_e-mail > > Personally I am all for simplicity, in most cases it improves > reliability, readability, stability, speed etc. > > Greetings, > Jeroen
Jeroen, thanks for the links. That helps me understand better why some prefer to use plain-text in emails. However, there are a couple of the arguments against html mails that I don't necessarily agree with, but that's another time and day. Thanks again, Brett ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
