Hi!
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 12:48:12AM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> I think that html email will become the standart. I've got only two
> reasons to think this:
>
> - The most used MUAs (Windows based) use by default html to compose
> emails. They're also full of bugs, as we're seeing nowadays, but
> anyway there's a lot of people using them.
Right, but most people kindly change that default once s.o. pointed to
them that html-mail sucks.
> - If Internet access and speed become greater everyday, and the html
> tags don't cause too much performance loss (in terms of net traffic,
> I mean) ... why not?
True, but that's not the point.
> I mean, what are the reasons that make html (or
> maybe xml or a derivated thing) not suited for email?
1. Many widespread mail clients are not capable of viewing html-mails.
Especially on unix systems of cause. These users won't change their
favorite client just because some people think html-mail is cool.
2. Email is a means of communication. You want the recipient to be able
to read the message you send him. See [1.]
3. Well, I don't like pink colored fonts, blinking text, etc.
Html gives you more options to make the text look ugly ;-)
Many people using html-mail tend to use TT-fonts which don't exit on
my linux box. I even got a message with a background picture!
4. Html is simply unnecessary for email. If you want to send s.o. a
html page, you could attach it.
5. Security. What happens with malicious java script code in an
html-mail?
> This is related to Mutt because maybe in a near future we see html
> emails as the norm, and not the exception, and some kind of html rendering
> engine gets implemented into Mutt.
I don't think this will happen in the near future. It would break all
design principles mutt has had until now. Keep it small and fast. If
there's and external program that can do the job use it (lynx,
nescape).
> What's your opinion related to this?
>
> a) "You'll get html email support when hell freezes over."
> b) "I don't care. I'll decide it when it happens."
> c) "You're too much on Prozac. Stop it."
>
a) of cause! ;-)
Michael
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