Paul B. Gallagher composed on 2017-01-22 21:55 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata wrote:
Ed Mullen composed on 2017-01-22 18:49 (UTC-0500):
Virtually no one I communicate with uses plain text and hasn't in
decades. And 99.9% of commercial email is HTML. I just don't get
the aversion to it.
1-styling that, like most web sites, disregards user settings,
resulting in tiny fonts and other abuse of those whose settings
and/or vision isn't the equal of the sender.
Any tool can be used well or badly. That's the sender's choice, and
smart senders should learn to use HTML well.
Few email senders are smart enough to know they use HTML email. The email apps
by default make it happen and they don't have any clue.
By the same token, smart users should learn to set their prefs according
to their needs. If "medium" size = 12 pt is too small, redefine it to 18
pt or whatever floats your boat.
Same problem. The defaults unusually get changed. My defaults are optimally set
for when they don't manage to somehow get overridden by rude incoming, as almost
always occurs when viewing of email is not set to plain text only.
2-overhead that almost always is unnecessary to the communication of
words. e.g a 1.3KB email I send to a yahoogroups.com mailing list
being returned at 18.9KB, the vast majority of increase which is
embedded styling and markup, overhead that remains for each message
that is kept for reference instead of being discarded.
In the modern era of terabyte disks and gigabyte RAM, who the (*&^(*&^
cares about a couple of extra kilobytes?
That "who cares" attitude is a too common problem among baby-boomers and
younger. Needless waste is nearly always to them an acceptable standard. Fill up
the landfills, real and electronic, devour natural resources, and let others,
including younger generations, pay the price.
It may be mathematically or
logically inelegant, but we're talking about sofa-cushion change, not
real money.
Not everyone has an email device only a few generations old or newer, or ample
storage, or the extra backup time or media to spare on wastefulness, or
broadband connectivity to hide the inefficiency of marking up a message with a
non-zero quantity of bytes that add nothing to the communication.
--
"The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant
words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
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