Re: HTML and support in products.

Hi John,

John Colby (22 oct. 2007 - 17:57) :
> From http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/? 
> p=530&tag=nl.e138
>
>  Doesn’t give me much hope.

Thanks for the article link.
Could you give a bit more of context? On your personal expectations?
Do you use the products cited in the article?
Did you experience troubles and more important how did you solve them  
or tried to solve them?

Noticing is good, but helping to move forward is better.



For email, there was a W3C workshop recently about [HTML in email] 
[1]. During the workshop the designers have expressed their  
frustrations with regards to the support of html and css in email  
clients. They are willing to go full CSS, but they can't for now, and  
are forced to rely on table layout design.

Another interesting statistics was also when you give the choice to  
all users to receive newsletters by email as text only or HTML, most  
of them (90%) request the HTML version. It seems with the new version  
of mailers we will see more and more HTML emails with predefined  
templates. A need for interoperability is quite important.

One way to help is to create HTML test cases for authoring tools and  
to make report about the way tools and libraries are producing HTML.  
I had started a document in July about this, but I will be happy to  
had test and stuff from people. It might help to push implementers  
and also feed the HTML WG with some needs from the authoring tools.  
There might be requirements in the specification which are just  
difficult to handle in an authoring tool or a CMS.




[1]: http://www.w3.org/2007/05/html-mail/
[2]: http://www.w3.org/2007/07/html-authoring-tools/

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Received on Tuesday, 23 October 2007 03:14:25 UTC