Interviewed by CNN on 20/3/2010 12:09, John Klein told the world: > I am a copywriter with no Internet technology backround, and I need a way to > create several HTML email messages for transmission by 3rd party email list > owners. Their instructions say that the email message must be in pure HTML > code, no style sheets or templates. > > Can I use SeaMonkey to create these HTML email messages? If so, could > someone point me in the right direction to get started. Thanks.
Well, you could, in theory. But HTML in e-mail is a very badly standardized thing, and it got worse since Microsoft rolled out Outlook 2007 -- which uses MS-Word as a rendering engine (very, very bad support for modern standards), instead of Internet Explorer (merely weak support for same standards). The gist of it is that creating a HTML e-mail that renders acceptably in a variety of clients (both e-mail programs and webmail sites) is a kind of black art -- a bit like creating a website in 1999, only worse because now we *know* there is a better way. Any HTML message created using an automated WYSIGYG tool, be it Seamonkey Composer or Adobe Dreamweaver, *will* fail to render correctly for a large share of recipients. The fancier you get, the more problems will appear. If you aren't comfortable with hand-coding and researching tricks all over the Web, I advise you to keep it very plain and simple. JeffM's comment came off a bit harsh, but he does have a point: there's no well-supported standard for HTML email. What *is* supported is plaintext -- that will display everywhere, in the way you intended. But I expect that's not what your customers want to hear. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... BOFH excuse #230: Lusers learning curve appears to be fractal *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.0.3 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
