Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 26, 2003 11:20 PM
Although many would argue that HTML mails are bad but hey, they do look good and at the end of the day it is what looks good that really matters. One may have written the "best" mail client in the world but if the interface looks like crap, who would besides the techies would have reasons to use it?
Text/enriched existed before HTML, and it had a tagging structure for people to set fonts and colors and other basic formatting characteristics. It had no scripting capabilities and it was designed to have messages to still be readable by non-supporting MUAs, unlike the sh*t HTML that MUAs like Outlook generate.
So, if you wanted something that looked pretty, but was safe, text/enriched could have been used.
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Re:Blaming Outlook
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 26, 2003 11:20 PMText/enriched existed before HTML, and it had a tagging structure for people to set fonts and colors and other basic formatting characteristics. It had no scripting capabilities and it was designed to have messages to still be readable by non-supporting MUAs, unlike the sh*t HTML that MUAs like Outlook generate.
So, if you wanted something that looked pretty, but was safe, text/enriched could have been used.
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