Re: New Look email ( Well, duh)

[Kevin Graeme]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_NextPart_000_1063808839_CFX_iMSMail_133696695 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" It's a basic useability problem because they are distracting. Anyone who's studied useability knows that animation on the page decreases the viewers ability to focus on the material. For that reason, we don't allow any animation on our pages here. -Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Wheatley To: CF-Community Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:10 PM Subject: RE: New Look email ( Well, duh) whats the problem with animated ads? Other then just annoying you? -- Introducing Shape Up! - a new personalized weight management plan - inspired by Dr. Phil McGraw. -- Bill Wheatley Senior Database Developer eDiets.com, Inc. (OTCBB: EDET) 3801 W. Hillsboro Blvd. Deerfield Beach, FL 33442 V: (954) 360-9022 ext. 159 F: (954) 360-9095 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: www.ediets.com -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:59 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: New Look email ( Well, duh) > 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. > 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.) > 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. Sorry to bitch. I just liked my cozy text blanket instead of the html hairshirt. :-) -Kevin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=i:5:89080 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_1063808839_CFX_iMSMail_133696695 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" It's a basic useability problem because they are distracting. Anyone who's studied useability knows that animation on the page decreases the viewers ability to focus on the material. For that reason, we don't allow any animation on our pages here. -Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Wheatley To: CF-Community Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:10 PM Subject: RE: New Look email ( Well, duh) whats the problem with animated ads? Other then just annoying you? -- Introducing Shape Up! - a new personalized weight management plan - inspired by Dr. Phil McGraw. -- Bill Wheatley Senior Database Developer eDiets.com, Inc. (OTCBB: EDET) 3801 W. Hillsboro Blvd. Deerfield Beach, FL 33442 V: (954) 360-9022 ext. 159 F: (954) 360-9095 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: <http://www.ediets.com/> www.ediets.com -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:59 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: New Look email ( Well, duh) > 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. > 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.) > 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. Sorry to bitch. I just liked my cozy text blanket instead of the html hairshirt. :-) -Kevin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
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