Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-07 Thread tedd
At 10:09 PM -0400 7/6/10, Paul M Foster wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 06:32:40PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote: In principle, I agree - in practice, CPU cycles are getting cheaper by the minute, and being wasted all the time. Not using HTML is highly unlikely to have a measurable impact on anybod

Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 06:32:40PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > Paul M Foster wrote: > > > Here is the real problem with HTML email. Any straight text message > > will swell to many times its size when you HTML-ize it. Okay, so now > > you're sending the message around the internet to perhaps hundr

Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-06 Thread upscope
On Tuesday, July 06, 2010 07:03:58 am Andre Majorel wrote: > On 2010-07-04 11:43 -0400, Al wrote: > > Seems like, from my preliminary Google searching, I should not > > waste time with the standard's way and just go straight to sending > > simple html pages since all modern browsers handle it well.

Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-06 Thread Per Jessen
Paul M Foster wrote: > Here is the real problem with HTML email. Any straight text message > will swell to many times its size when you HTML-ize it. Okay, so now > you're sending the message around the internet to perhaps hundreds or > thousands of users, using up many times the bandwidth that the

Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-06 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2010-07-04 11:43 -0400, Al wrote: > Seems like, from my preliminary Google searching, I should not waste > time with the standard's way and just go straight to sending simple > html pages since all modern browsers handle it well. And, it appears > to be the way web is going. "Browsers" ? "The

Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-05 Thread tedd
At 11:44 PM +0100 7/4/10, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 17:06 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:43:59AM -0400, Al wrote: -snip- > > Seems like, from my preliminary Google searching, I should not waste > time with > the standard's way and just go straight

Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-05 Thread Richard Quadling
On 4 July 2010 16:43, Al wrote: > What are you folks doing? > > Al.. One of the tasks I had to develop was the sending of authorised work in a "by job" report. We receive the work as a fax/email. We log the job in our system. The client comes to our site and confirms the on-cost billing

Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-05 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 23:12 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:44:29PM +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > > > > > >It is nice to be able to format emails nicely, but you have to realise > >when to restrain yourself. I've been getting loads of emails from Adobe >

Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-04 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:44:29PM +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > >It is nice to be able to format emails nicely, but you have to realise >when to restrain yourself. I've been getting loads of emails from Adobe >lately that haven't been formatted well at all, and appear awfully in

Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-04 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 17:06 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:43:59AM -0400, Al wrote: > > > I know this is a bit off-topic; but close enough. > > > > I'm starting to update the email feature of one of my DB applications and > > noticed that it appears most of the fancy ema

Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-04 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:43:59AM -0400, Al wrote: > I know this is a bit off-topic; but close enough. > > I'm starting to update the email feature of one of my DB applications and > noticed that it appears most of the fancy emails I receive are using > just plain > old, simple html pages, with a

Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-04 Thread Per Jessen
Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 06:31:38PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >> >> We follow the standard and send both text and html. > > The text portion is the *only* portion I read. > Cool, that is the whole point. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (24.3°C) -- PHP General Mailing List (http

Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-04 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 06:31:38PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > Al wrote: > > > I know this is a bit off-topic; but close enough. > > > > I'm starting to update the email feature of one of my DB applications > > and noticed that it appears most of the fancy emails I receive are > > using just plain

Re: [PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-04 Thread Per Jessen
Al wrote: > I know this is a bit off-topic; but close enough. > > I'm starting to update the email feature of one of my DB applications > and noticed that it appears most of the fancy emails I receive are > using just plain old, simple html pages, with a note about not being > able to see, go her

[PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-04 Thread Al
I know this is a bit off-topic; but close enough. I'm starting to update the email feature of one of my DB applications and noticed that it appears most of the fancy emails I receive are using just plain old, simple html pages, with a note about not being able to see, go here with a link. It