At 12:13 AM -0600 7/18/2010, Tina K. wrote:
Dan wrote:
HTML email is often done by hardcoding the font sizes. That means your
email will ALWAYS be unreadable to someone.
HTML email ONLY looks good if the receiver has the SAME type of mail
client you do. That means your email will ALWAYS be unreadable to someone.
I'm curious, how does RTF fits into the discussion? Is Mail.app's
RTF format really HTML?
RTF (Rich Text Format) is HTML, but without some of the formal
headers and such. Since it hasn't got all the headers, it's a bit
more efficient -- but not by much.
For an example, take a look at Kevin Barth's posts in this thread, in
their raw format. Scroll past the various email headers, until you
get to the < x-html > tag (I've added spaces here to prevent your
email client from hiding it from you in this paragraph). Notice that
the text of his email is not overly readable, as it completely
depends upon the HTML interpretation to re-format it. Note also that
because the body of his email is in HTML, the footer added by Google
has also been reformatted/expanded to include HTML.
To use one of his early posts in this thread as an example... The
HTML version is 1556 bytes. The plain text version of that is only
1085 bytes. (Body+footer of the email, not including the standard
headers). That's an expansion of about 145 % (doing the math off my
fingers) on a SMALL email message alone. Figure a thousand emails
per month in this mailing list, plus the other LEM lists times the
number of people on those lists... That's megabytes of extra
bandwidth that provides NO additional "signal", just "noise"!
Here are two small screenshots, showing Kevin's email in both forms:
<http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/Barth%20plain%20text.jpg>
<http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/Barth%20rich%20text.jpg>
- Dan.
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