Matt wrote:
HTML does not belong in e-mails.
Guess I'd better not send myself photos from my cell phone, then. The
email gateway adds an HTML body with an inline reference to the attachment.
Though come to think of it, I suppose I shouldn't be sending images to
an email address in the first place. I wonder if I can get my phone to
upload to an FTP site...
Like it or not, the genie is out of the bottle on HTML email. It has
been for longer than most people have *had* email. Until something
comes along that (a) handles all the formatting that people want to be
able to do, including adding silly backgrounds, changing the font or
color for no reason, and embedding images in a layout such that they can
be captioned and (b) is supported by the most popular email clients,
we're stuck with it.
> An inline gif is INLINE with HTML.. an attached GIF is attached to the
> message and the message is in MIME-text format.
Incidentally... inline images *are* attached through MIME -- there's
just a reference to that MIME part in the HTML part. Unless you're
talking about data: URLs (where the image data is literally inline in
the HTML) or remote images (where the image is loaded from a webserver
upon displaying the message).
--
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
