> On Jun 26, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Nick <eveningn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Would experienced developers suggest is the best way to have an email > editor view, similar to what Apple Mail app has? What would be the best way > to give the users a similar to Apple Mail experience?
You’ll need a WebView if you want to handle anything other than plain-text messages, since most rich-text email is HTML. (The text/enriched format used to be common back in the day, but I think all the current clients send HTML now.) The Mail composition editor is also a WebView, but with the contentEditable property enabled. > I am trying to let the user edit the message, display attachments like > pdf's and images. Inline images are handled as HTML <img> tags. The trick is that the URL in the href attribute usually refers to an image stored in another MIME part of the email message. This can be a relative link from the HTML body, or an explicit link to a MIME part using (IIRC) a “cid:” URL. It’s also possible to have plain-text emails with inline images; in this case the message is multipart and contains a mixture of text and image parts. I don’t know how inline PDFs are handled, since HTML doesn’t have a tag to display them. —Jens PS: I don’t want to discourage you, but writing a full-featured email client is a _very_ large and complex task. In addition to the message display and composition, you’re also going to have to deal with MIME parsing/generation, the IMAP protocol (and maybe Exchange), database storage that can handle the volume of email people keep around, full-text search, junk mail detection, a rule engine… (I used to work on Apple’s Mail team briefly, a long time ago.) _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
