On Sun, 02/02/2003 04:29 -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 06:26, Thomas Ritter wrote: >> Am Sonntag, 2. Februar 2003 14:45 schrieb Alexander Hvostov: >>> I'm sure there are other reasons that make HTML inappropriate for email, >>> at least for the time being. Anyone care to comment?
* Rendering delays. Waiting > 1s for each mail to render is unacceptable when you have to go through a lot of mail. * Raising the minimum system requirements. (Think: small gadgets.) * Backwards compatibility. >> Yes, TRUST for one. There were too many HTML-Mail-related security holes in >> the past. > > That is an MUA problem, not an HTML problem. There have been plenty of > security holes in MUAs not related to HTML in the past. But keeping things simple is the first rule of writing secure code. Now I would like to see some sort of simple xml scheme to add meta-info to mails like e.g. about uri's, but html is not it. -- Tim van Erven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: F6C9 61EE 242C C012 OpenPGP Key ID: 712CB811 36D5 BBF8 6310 D557 712C B811
