Well I think for smaller images you may be able to embed it not as an attachment but as a data URL directly in the HTML.
> On Jun 27, 2015, at 05:15, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > >> 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/max%40maxchan.info > > This email sent to m...@maxchan.info
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