Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2007-01-05 at 15:46 -0500, Geir A. Myrestrand wrote:
Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
I send and receive lots of e-mails which contain equations. I just prepare
them using any equation editor and paste them as pictures in my HTML e-mail.
So I raise my both hands ;)
Note that you can send images without using HTML. Just make references to the
attached images if necessary. There are also document formats you can use for
this that will serve your content better.
With html the image is shown inserted in the right place in the text flow.
With plain text he would be forced to look it up. This is comparable to
having books with the images printed in a separata in the middle of the
book, because the printing machine can't handle it.
I know, that is why I said he can make a reference to the image (like
what is frequently done in both magazines and books), or use a separate
document that is either attached to the message or referenced via a URL
for example. The latter is better if it has to be an inline image that
is directly next to the associated text. Otherwise the "connect the
dots" solution is often good enough IMO.
Web sites use html. Nobody tells them to use plain text. Html is not evil
per se.
Agree.
Use of html by evil people can be evil. That's different.
Use of HTML in e-mail is evil (at least on a mailing list), no matter
whether the person is evil or not. Well, that is my opinion. ;-)
Most people probably don't care or disagree, and I am fine with that. We
don't all have to agree (or disagree). I just voiced my opinion when
someone voiced theirs.
If you can't express yourself in pure text, then I don't want to see how
you express yourself with HTML --at least not in an e-mail... ;-)
I have to admit I receive regular e-mails in HTML too, by choice. Some
content is more about presentation than the message, but to me it feels
more like one of those things that was made because it was possible and
not because it should be done.
HTML messages are an excellent feed for spam filters though, maybe more
useful for that than for "artistic expressions".
Maybe too much are shoe-horned into the old Internet e-mail standards to
be backwards compatible. Wonder if we're ever going to see something
like a new generation of e-mail standards that goes beyond what is in
SMTP/ESMTP and associated standards today.
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Geir A. Myrestrand
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