Re: New Look email ( Well, duh)

[Michael Dinowitz]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_NextPart_000_1063807866_CFX_iMSMail_132723656 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 2. I do mind that it's animated. A lot. > I think its just 3 frames on a constant loop. > > Yeah, a _constant_ loop. I know some sites have policies that they won't > accept animated ads and many companies will create animated and non-animated > versions. If you can do that, I know that I'd appreciate it. I'll ad that to the banner policy that I accept. one animation loop max. > > 3. Just looking at the responses so far, any visual indication of quoted > text > > is gone. > I think that's based on the individual mail client. The extra new lines may > have > also made it look that way. I've dealt with that. > > It looks though that since every browser handles quoting of html text > differently that there is going to be a lot more inconsistency in replies to > the list. I know that quoting has really always been up to the client, but > with plain text there was at least a convention almost all clients followed. > Now even if I switch to text-only, I'm still going to see the fallout of > everyone else's email client. (Note that even though I've switched to > text-only for this message, it didn't know how to convert it from the > original HTML quoted text.) I think I have a solution to that but it's a bit ugly. Let me look at some options here. > > 4. Trying to quote inline in html is an exercise in frustration. > The only HTML is the footer. All of the rest of the text is plain text. > > While the only explicit HTML tags are in the footer, the entire message is > wrapped in , thus making it all HTML. true, but the mail program should see it as non-formatted text (I'd hope). > > Sorry to bitch. I just liked my cozy text blanket instead of the html > hairshirt. :-) Not a prob. This is why I've put it here first. Let people bitch about it. let me fix it up and make it as solid as possible. End result should be something that everyone can work with. If in the end I find that it just can't work, then I'll pull it off. On the whole, it looks like it can work though. We'll see over a few days more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=i:5:89070 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com --_NextPart_000_1063807866_CFX_iMSMail_132723656 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 2. I do mind that it's animated. A lot. > I think its just 3 frames on a constant loop. > > Yeah, a _constant_ loop. I know some sites have policies that they won't > accept animated ads and many companies will create animated and non-animated > versions. If you can do that, I know that I'd appreciate it. I'll ad that to the banner policy that I accept. one animation loop max. > > 3. Just looking at the responses so far, any visual indication of quoted > text > > is gone. > I think that's based on the individual mail client. The extra new lines may > have > also made it look that way. I've dealt with that. > > It looks though that since every browser handles quoting of html text > differently that there is going to be a lot more inconsistency in replies to > the list. I know that quoting has really always been up to the client, but > with plain text there was at least a convention almost all clients followed. > Now even if I switch to text-only, I'm still going to see the fallout of > everyone else's email client. (Note that even though I've switched to > text-only for this message, it didn't know how to convert it from the > original HTML quoted text.) I think I have a solution to that but it's a bit ugly. Let me look at some options here. > > 4. Trying to quote inline in html is an exercise in frustration. > The only HTML is the footer. All of the rest of the text is plain text. > > While the only explicit HTML tags are in the footer, the entire message is > wrapped in , thus making it all HTML. true, but the mail program should see it as non-formatted text (I'd hope). > > Sorry to bitch. I just liked my cozy text blanket instead of the html > hairshirt. :-) Not a prob. This is why I've put it here first. Let people bitch about it. let me fix it up and make it as solid as possible. End result should be something that everyone can work with. If in the end I find that it just can't work, then I'll pull it off. On the whole, it looks like it can work though. We'll see over a few days more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
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