On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:47:00PM +0000, Mark Fowler wrote: > Or some people (like me) have HTML mail disabled. Sure, PINE can read > html mail and have a go at rendering it but I'm not going to...I have it > turned off. Send me a link and I'll probably click on it. Go figure.
I am just the same! ;-) > I highly recommend people look at the various options for including > alternative text (normally a link to a web page) both as a > multipart/alternative and in the preamble sections. This allows people > (who admittedly suffered the large download already) to choose the correct > section of the web page to display best suited to their preferences. Pay > attention to the option of sending a *very* short message in the preamble > - certain very primitive non-mime email clients will often display this if > they can't work out how to deal any further. Yeah - I think one of the main points here is to think about your readers and how you can *help* them to read your message, rather than to *force* them to only be able to read it one way (and a way they may not be able to view at all). It may be best that the whole email be replaced as a text only version with all of the content and alt texts so that non graphical environments (like mine) can get the gist. In a similar way to how the web browsers for blond people read out the alt texts of images, etc... Ah well. I will stop this now - all this has been done to death before and is covered well on many websites (accessibility and web and email, etc.)... -- Natalie S. Ford ................................. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ......................................... http://www.natalie.ourshack.org
