Re: Unready and social engineering Re: [html4all] several messages about alt

On Apr 14, 2008, at 1:13 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:

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>>
>> Nothing - so we should be realistic about the use cases for any  
>> stamp, and reckon on the overall cost/benefit from this. Ian asked  
>> elsewhere what would be the benefit in making a private email  
>> between himself and his partner non-conforming, but equally it  
>> could be asked what possible benefit is tehre to them in knowing  
>> that their private email *is* conforming? In either case I suspect  
>> the answer is "none whatesoever", so looking at the cost becomes  
>> worthwhile...
>
> Validating the email you send isn't a particularly useful activity,  
> but a email app vendor may still want their QA to check that the  
> output of their program matches the spec. I think HTML should focus  
> on Web pages, though.

Many popular mail clients (GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail) publish mail  
messages as Web pages.

Regards,
Maciej