On Wed, 10 Jan 2024, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote:
As the OP has written, the only ones that may be interested in this may be
marketers. Nobody else needs any logos, avatars etc. displayed alongside the
email headers. There is a reason why the early attempt at this - I'm talking
about the X-Face header, which you even refer to in this document - never
gained any popularity. Simply, nobody needs this. The fact that Gmail
implemented in its web client putting up some images alongside email headers
(which, by the way, show anything non-default only if the sender is another
Gmail user and has a profile picture defined in his/her account) shouldn't
be any reference nor guide for designing email applications at all. NOBODY
NEEDS THESE IMAGES.
X-Face was too far ahead of its time. Enough of the market did not have
the bandwidth to make it practical, and digitisers/cameras were not
readily available.
Today many discussion sites do have avatars. When I look at the discussion
of a bug on github, they do help me to see who made which comment.
key-phrases: visual meta-data, clues to context.
*I* would be interested in avatars with emails, if they didn't have lots
of costs that far exceed those of the message itself.
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
and...@aitchison.me.uk
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