Hello Dierk,
Sunday, December 02, 2001, 4:17:59 AM, you wrote:
Dierk> The biggest problems for me are:
Dierk> 1. People send HTML but *don't* use the HTML features, making
Dierk> messages unnecessarily big. Those are the messages that look
Dierk> exactly the same in HTML and PT.
Yes and in that, I really like the way TB handles such
messages. Even for the ones containing useless stationery. I'm
not really bashing stationery but referring to those who have it
set for every message by default. I don't fault the software
for having the feature, however. But fixing this is akin to
convincing my great Aunt to quit sending chain letters. But
seriously, I like the way TB handles most HTML messages, giving
you the power to delete the HTML portion while still saving the
text for later review.
Dierk> 2. People find out about the features of HTML and use them
Dierk> unnecessarily. Those are the messages that could/should have been
Dierk> sent in PT but look like the most stupidly designed web sites from
Dierk> which you can get - quite literally - a seizure.
Yes again. And this is somewhat understandable on the
Web at least. People still learning are eager to try anything
flashy. Yet I don't think such features should be removed from
e-mail clients. There are valid uses for almost
everything...almost.
Dierk> It is actually some spammers and the commercial newsletters (like
Dierk> PCWelt's) that make really good use of HTML. To them even GET makes
Dierk> sense, even if their NL are completely void of contents when I see
Dierk> them with TB!.
Good last point. Some organizations seem to find it easier to
compose a message as one large set of sliced graphics and / or
objects. yet, as you say, the message body contains nothing in
the way of content. This is something many of us wouldn't ever
know had we never come across TB.
The main thing I like about HTML messages are link
formatting and structure. For instance, sending a rather
lengthy link which contains strings like htm?view=01189432 at
the end are troublesome for many e-mail clients. Of course,
HTML formatted links don't share this problem. And even the
best of tricks are not fool proof. The only decent solution is
to set up a redirect link with a shorter URL for every link
contained in a message. ECom newsletters considered, this can
be a laborious task to say the least. In this way, I have had to
make decisions to leave some content out of text-only versions
while HTML versions are complete and as intended.
Secondly, structure is important at least internally.
I'm sure most of us have by now received a transaction receipt
in text that is horribly wrapped. Some solid companies do their
best to adjust for standard column lengths. But they never seem
to work perfectly. While I wouldn't recommend sending customer
invoices in HTML alone, I'd consider using the dual method. And
I certainly share internal documents of this type with table
structures via HTML. This is almost necessary due to some
office members using 640 x 480 on 14" monitors. But these can't
be confidential documents as encrypting HTML documents is a
mystery to me.
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James
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