Hello Alaeddin, On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 11:32:02 +0400 GMT (18/08/02, 14:32 +0700 GMT), Alaeddin Muntasser wrote:
>> (much to some peoples disgust) or including an HTML feature in AM> Why is this bad for some people? Just out of curiosity. It is not bad for some people, it is bad for all people. ;-) HTML blows up the size of the mail by a significant factor, even if you don't use colours and different sized fonts. Almost all emails that I receive in HTML by OE/OL users or AOL users have no such enhancement. If I strip the HTML part and view the message in TB's Rich Text Viewer, I get exactly the same result. Why have 70% of the size been wasted? With millions of people sending email every day, a factor 2 or 3 or so is significant to bandwidth on a global level. If you live in a country that hasn't the widest international links, you'll understand. Furthermore, I do not like to receive emails in green size 28 fonts on pink background. I see no enhancement in that and hence no advantage of HTML emails as opposed to plaintext emails. Pictures I can attach alsoo to plaintext mails, I don;t need HTML for that. Last not least, HTML is the Hyper-Text Markup Language, invented in Geneva for hyperlinking seperate text parts in a document, or even different documents. for the non-scientific user, Help files are often HTML documents, and websites surely are; the latter are transmitted to your computer using the Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (http). Hence the name of that protocol. Email does not use the hypertext transfer protocol, it uses email-related protocols. HTML has in fact nothing to do with email. Why try to squeeze it in there? -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Hans Krankl (Oesterreichischer Nationaltrainer): Wir muessen gewinnen, alles andere ist primaer. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta1 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
