Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
David Wilkinson wrote:
Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
Why is HTML 'okay' in RSS but not in email or news? I view everything
in HTML (always have) and have no problems.
Because RSS feeds generally point to web pages, and mail or news
accounts point to messages.
So? Still does not explain or give any reasoning why HTML is not
'okay' in email or news.
Many don't appreciate HTML in email or news, but that's simply personal
taste, nothing more.
I beg to differ with your 'nothing more' statement, sir.
Staying with the html part of the discussion, html is disliked for email
and news groups because of the excessive room it takes up, and the
length of time it takes to download.
This has been studied and discussed and picked apart and belabored over
for years and years.
The truth remains, there are STILL many folks who use dialup and not any
of the much faster schemes such as dsl ~ and for these folks, they
already labor to download 'normal' text, composed of ascii characters.
It takes up a lot more room and elapsed time to receive html formatted
documents.
Especially for primarily content-laden messages, which get 99.5% of
their point across using simple textual characters and NO formatting,
why would anyone insist on loading up each message by insisting on html
formatting, adding colors and fancy fonts, and symbols?
No, it isn't quite as simple and innocuous as you would have us believe,
Dan.
keith whaley
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