Thanks for this very complete and _very_ informative response! Your script is,obviously, going to fill a valuable niche. I'll definitely give it a try, sometime soon.
For basic styled text with a few graphics, though, such as a note about my vacation with a photo or two, I have to say I've found Word's Send as HTML to be quite useful. On or near 6/27/04 10:06 AM, Rob Buckley at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: >> Rob, a noble effort! How, exactly, will this differ from the ability in >> Office 2004 to construct a message in Word, with inline graphics, and then >> use "File->Send as HTML"? Is the resulting outgoing message in Entourage >> editable? (The one generated by Word is not.) >> >> > > Four main differences really: > > 1) It'll work (it turns out) with Entourage X and Word X, whereas Send as > HTML is new to Word 2004 > 2) It works with complex HTML: Word, excellent word processor as it is, > doesn't deal with the full gamut of options HTML has to offer. So if you > want to do anything more complicated, you have to use another HTML editor. > It also works with any file referenced using SRC= commands in HTML, not just > graphics (so that includes <object>, <param>, and <embed> tags, which means > it should work with Shockwave, Flash and RealVideo files for instance, > provided the email client can cope) > 3) Word doesn't create a plain text alternative when using the Send as HTML > option. The script allows you to create an entirely different plain text > alternative to the HTML. > 4) It avoids the Word HTML Munge�. The Munge� is a two-stage screwing up of > your HTML. Say you create an HTML file in another program and want to use > that as the basis of your email using the Send as HTML command. First you > open up the HTML file in Word. This invokes the first stage Munge�, where > the HTML practically doubles in size as it Word adds about a hundredweight > of additional XML and stylesheet information that totally screws up your > formatting. So then you spend a happy time removing all this new cruft > that's been added to your page, get it to a state you're almost happy with > and then use the Send as HTML command. This invokes second stage Munge�. > This is when Word creates an entirely new approximation to your HTML and > adds it to a message in Entourage. At no point will this look very much like > the HTML file you had before. > > In answer to your other question, unfortunately, in common with its > predecessor script, you can't edit the new email once its composed: this is > through no fault of its own, only an attempt to avoid the Entourage HTML > Munge� which takes complex HTML and reduces it to simple HTML when you edit > a message in Entourage that contains the former. > > Basically, if I were feeling full of myself, I would say the script is > really a "Pro" version of the Send as HTML command: it's for people that > want to create HTML emails that are faithful reproductions of HTML files, > who don't want to have to host graphics in their emails on a web server, who > don't have Office 2004 yet or who need to be able to send a dual-format > email for both plain text-only and HTML-compatible email clients. > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
