- From: Maurice <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 13:56:41 -0400
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 5/1/07 11:03 AM, "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote: > Henk-Jan de Boer wrote: > >> Philip Taylor (Webmaster) schreef op 1-5-2007 15:23: >>> In the view of many (most ?), HTML is /abused/ in e-mail. E-mail >>> is about the communication of information, and can invariably >>> best be accomplished using text/plain. >> I think that the World Wide Web as a collection of websites is about the >> communication of information too, but on a more massive scale. >> >> Furthermore it would be unrealistic to hope that one day all use of >> HTML, or abuse as you say, will be abandonned. [long snip] > > If people want to continue to abuse HTML by embedding it in > e-mail, they are free so to do; all I am suggesting is that > HTML5+ does not need to be /designed/ for such abuses, since > those wishing to abuse HTML in that way can continue to use > HTML 4.01- (or, more likely, tag-soup) with no problems at all. > > Philip Taylor I don't know any web developers _personally_ who have not had to do html email templates/newsletters for at least 5 clients ( and in the last 5 months). I don't, and I'm sure they don't consider html email as an 'abuse'. Why do you say it's an abuse? Would you rather we sent rich text email? -- :: thyme online ltd :: po box cb13650 nassau the bahamas :: website: http://www.thymeonline.com/ :: tel: 242 327-1864 fax: 242 377 1038
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