[thelist] AOL and HTML email

[Bart Johnston]

Another interesting thing to note about aol email, is that while it won't
correctly read HTML emails (prior to 6, I guess), it will read HTML links.
The important distinction to make is that it will not make urls into links
(like outlook), but will only read <a href="foo.htm">links</a>

In an html newsletter I recently designed, I had to make 3 different
versions: html, text, and text for aol.  The only difference being that in
the AOL version, I used <a>'s for my links, while in the regular text
version I just wrote out the URLs.


Bart Johnston
bart at archrival.com


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Charlie Llewellin
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 8:54 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] AOL and HTML email
>
>
> A litle while back there was discussion of HTML email, and
> someone mentioned
> in passing that you should always send text to AOL users. I meant at the
> time to ask why, and am now only just doing so.
>
> I send HTML email to AOL users - I have a test AOL account where
> I get this
> mail and it all seems to work fine (AOL 6 on Windows 98) - can
> anyone tell
> me why sending HTML to AOL is such a bad idea?
>
> Charlie
>
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