[thelist] html dot syntax

[Brian King]

FYI, it's not just AOL users.  MS Outlook can also be set up to render HTML
in your Email.  I personally use it.  I like getting email like that, (until
some jerk figures out how to send me a virus with it).
In short, I think there are more HTML enabled mail users out there than you
assume.

Brian W. King

-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On
Behalf Of .jeff
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:07 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: RE: [thelist] html dot syntax

john,

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> From: john corry
>
> Lately I've been seeing example html in posts to the
> list that has unfamiliar dot syntax...like:
>
> <.table
>       <.tr>
>       <.td>content<./td>
>       <./tr>
> <./table>
>
> What is this? XML? I can't find any references to this
> in my XHTML references or on thesite...what is it?
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it's list members *trying* to be nice to aol users.  supposedly html within
a plain-text email message will try to render in the aol mail reader.
considering the downsides*, i'm not sure it's worth the trouble.

*downsides

 - takes longer to produce sample code
 - takes longer to convert sample code from
   the list to usable code for testing purposes
 - what percentage of our users have aol
   accounts and actually encounter this problem
   that this supposedly solves?