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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on June 28, 2007, 2:57 pm
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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed David Stone
> mstemper@siemens-emis.com (Michael Stemper) wrote:
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>> groups2 writes:
>>
>> >This is a simplified example of an html email, including the header.
>> >It seems to render fine in most situations but for some people it is
>> >just code.
>>
>> That would certainly be the case if you sent it to me -- my email
>> client doesn't have a browser. There are only two ways to show me a
>> web page: 1. Send me a URL, and tell me why I'd want to look at it.
>> 2. Send me HTML, and convince me that it's worth my while to go to
>> the
>> effort of saving it to a file, fixing the permissions, and calling
>> it up locally in a browser.
>>
>> Nothing that you ever do will get a web page displayed in all email
>> clients, because not all email clients are capable of doing so...
>
> ... and some are configured not to, either by default or by the user.
> (Good practice, given the nature of html e-mail spams, phishes, etc.)
>
And my boss says to me the other day:
Boss: I want this sent as an open page
Me: What exactly do you mean by "open page"
Boss: Well, I want all the graphics and fonts that are the news letter to
look like that on the email
Me: The best thing to do is send a plain text email with a few teasers
and a URL to the actual newsletter
Boss: What about HTML?
Me: Some people, like me, have HTML email filtered out.
Boss: I can send it in Word!
Me: Word documents are bloated and come as attachments
Boss: I like Word
Me: What about people who can't open Word documents?
Boss: That's okay, I don't care about them. I'm going to use Word.
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