On 26. Oct 2006, at 07:23, Fred B wrote:
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- Not everybody like html/rich text mails, some even have strong
feelings against html in mails [...]
To emphasize, one of the reasons why it is disliked is that mailers generally send a giant style sheet with the message.
This means that the message appears unlike any other message in the inbox, which is bad when you have to quickly go through your new email, because having to read 30 messages in a row which are:
* formatted exactly the same * has the first character of the first paragraph at the same location * use the same font (which you chose for optimal reading efficiency) * use the same visual style to markup quoted sections * are without visual distractions (company banners, etc.)
Is much more convenient than reading 30 messages where this is not the case, and it is often not with HTML, especially when generated on Windows, which tends to specify the font size in points, and that comes out to a much smaller font on the Mac (because of how they define the unit differently).
In addition to reading the email comes the lost flexibility when replying to it, as the HTML is often just one big black box, or the mailer will treat it that way.