On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:46:59PM +0000, Tony's unattended mail wrote: > On 2012-11-24, Derek Martin <inva...@pizzashack.org> wrote: > > > > Yeah, I said exactly that in another message. Now generate HTML > > mail with Mutt. Plus you still get a lot of folks -- many of whom > > use GUI clents -- who complain about HTML mail for any number of > > reasons. And at least a few of them are legitimately arguable > > concerns. A good > > start: > > > > http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml > > 6/7 of those are good reasons to condemn HTML e-mail with todays tools > in a hypothetical scenario where tools cannot improve. [...] > In principle, none of this rationale is a worthy cause to condemn HTML > in the body of an e-mail message. People fail to produce quality > tools.
Yeah, but in the mean time, the tools are what they are, and we have work to do. > There's something to be said for dangerous and unnecessary features > being excluded from a language to promote the quality tools used for > the job -- but this does not entail abandoning the /whole/ language. I agree and I have advocated exactly that for HTML mail on this list and others, for a very long time. But see above. :) You have to get someone who's of the mind to develop a tool to adopt your new language, and then you have to get EVERYONE ELSE (or a reasonably sized subset of them) to adopt it also. It can be done, but it's HARD. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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