> Rob, a noble effort! How, exactly, will this differ from the ability in > Office 2004 to construct a message in Word, with inline graphics, and then > use "File->Send as HTML"? Is the resulting outgoing message in Entourage > editable? (The one generated by Word is not.) > >
Four main differences really: 1) It'll work (it turns out) with Entourage X and Word X, whereas Send as HTML is new to Word 2004 2) It works with complex HTML: Word, excellent word processor as it is, doesn't deal with the full gamut of options HTML has to offer. So if you want to do anything more complicated, you have to use another HTML editor. It also works with any file referenced using SRC= commands in HTML, not just graphics (so that includes <object>, <param>, and <embed> tags, which means it should work with Shockwave, Flash and RealVideo files for instance, provided the email client can cope) 3) Word doesn't create a plain text alternative when using the Send as HTML option. The script allows you to create an entirely different plain text alternative to the HTML. 4) It avoids the Word HTML Munge�. The Munge� is a two-stage screwing up of your HTML. Say you create an HTML file in another program and want to use that as the basis of your email using the Send as HTML command. First you open up the HTML file in Word. This invokes the first stage Munge�, where the HTML practically doubles in size as it Word adds about a hundredweight of additional XML and stylesheet information that totally screws up your formatting. So then you spend a happy time removing all this new cruft that's been added to your page, get it to a state you're almost happy with and then use the Send as HTML command. This invokes second stage Munge�. This is when Word creates an entirely new approximation to your HTML and adds it to a message in Entourage. At no point will this look very much like the HTML file you had before. In answer to your other question, unfortunately, in common with its predecessor script, you can't edit the new email once its composed: this is through no fault of its own, only an attempt to avoid the Entourage HTML Munge� which takes complex HTML and reduces it to simple HTML when you edit a message in Entourage that contains the former. Basically, if I were feeling full of myself, I would say the script is really a "Pro" version of the Send as HTML command: it's for people that want to create HTML emails that are faithful reproductions of HTML files, who don't want to have to host graphics in their emails on a web server, who don't have Office 2004 yet or who need to be able to send a dual-format email for both plain text-only and HTML-compatible email clients. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
