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At 2:13 PM -0700 7/17/2010, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
evidently that apple is a picture?
The Apple icon is present in SOME fonts, but not all. You cannot
guarantee such dingbats exist in the font the recipient is using.
The sender should consider that some emails look really stupid when
displayed in other fonts because of such special character use.
At 6:10 PM -0400 7/17/2010, Kevin Barth wrote:
Most people today are using email clients, either online or
localized, that are capable of accurately reproducing emails encoded
with fairly complex HTML markup.
ROFLMAO
At 5:16 PM -0500 7/17/2010, Eric Herbert wrote:
I hate to be "that guy", but might I ask why we're being asked to
cling to a 1970's server technology in the 2010s? HTML and Rich
Text emails have pretty well been the "standard" since at least the
late 90s. Even "freebie" email programs such as Yahoo and Hotmail
have been HTML based for years. Is there some sort of reason that
HTML and Rich Text are suddenly taboo? Seems to me that Mail.app
defaults to Rich Text, which I have to say, has been working just
fine for me (and everyone else in my family, company, friend
circles, et al...) for years.
First of all, realize that "rich text" is a form of HTML.
Consider Your Audience.
HTML email is often done by hardcoding the font sizes. That means
your email will ALWAYS be unreadable to someone.
HTML email ONLY looks good if the receiver has the SAME type of mail
client you do. That means your email will ALWAYS be unreadable to
someone.
Notice please the name of the site: LOW End Mac. LOW End. That
means your email needs to be readable by BOTH the people with the
high-speed internet connections and the FAST computers as well as the
dial-up / pay per KB types and older SLOWER computers.
Remember that the purpose of these LEM mailing lists is TECHNICAL
SUPPORT, not pretty animated icon cutsie email chatty please pass the
nail polish.
I don't speak for the other techies on these lists... but wading thru
HTML-based emails, just like TOP POSTED and UNTRIMMED messages, is a
WASTE of my time. My time is very limited. I can view a couple of
pretty emails, and get lost in all the formatting added by each
replier, and botched along the way... Or I can quickly go thru whole
threads of well-formatted plain text - and provide technical answers.
Remember the part about the purpose of these lists????
Frankly, if you're dying to send pretty messages then go find a
service that's Forum based. Myself, I'll continue to hit cmd-D as
soon as I open a gaudy POS HTML email on these groups.
- Dan.
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