Terry R. wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> Terry R. wrote: >>> I can compose an HTML document (and of course depending on how >>> extreme the formatting is), and the size won't be much more than >>> 10%-20% of it's plain text counterpart. And zero errors. >> >> You might be able to do that, Terry, (and so could I) but most HTML >> email clients sure can't. Do you get email from, say, yahoo mail >> users? A one or two sentence message runs around 13-16KB usually. >> Here's a small snippet from a four-sentence message I got yesterday >> via yahoogroups. >> [snip code] >> >> The 302 lines of *styling* were in a second<head> section after all >> the HTML and content! Oh, and viewing the email in HTML, it is just >> the four lines in the Georgia font. No other formatting was applied >> by the sender. > > I can't speak for Yahoo mail, and I don't know anyone that uses it > offhand.
Really? I'd say about 20-25% of the mail I get comes from yahoo. > But I was responding directly to David's comment of, > > "If a 1 MB plain-text message were instead composed as an > HTML-formatted message, the result would be approximately 4.6 MB. > And it would likely have approximately 21,000 HTML syntax errors." Heh, I'm sure that was a misuse of MB .. where he meant KB (which would be about right, a typical 4 to 1 ratio. The email I cited has 67 words (357 bytes), and from Yahoo needed 13 Kilobytes of HTML. Or he may just have been exaggerating for fun. > and I believe he overstated the numbers quite a bit. Maybe if the > email was sent as PT & HTML using Word, but not just HTML, and not > the error count either. Ewww. Word, as the editor for OE, does a *terrible* job of HTML. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
