[thelist] CSS in HTML E-mail?
Shawn K. Quinn
skquinn at speakeasy.net
Thu Dec 15 19:24:28 CST 2005
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:43 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> IOW, email existed before HTML and CSS. Those for whom it worked before
> M$'s email corruption genesis
Actually it's Netscape which started the (ab)use of HTML in e-mail.
Microsoft didn't come into the game until later.
> shouldn't be required to "upgrade" to something worse than what they
> have just to get support for something they don't want.
Or, as they say where I come from: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Actually "if it ain't broke, don't break it" probably fits closer here,
which is pretty sad.
> People who have messages they think belong in HTML/CSS email really have
> messages that should be little more than links to web pages that
> recipients can view/download if and when they choose by opening an email
> link.
+1
(Or in some cases, outright spam.)
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Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>
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