Daniel Lawson wrote:
Also, many people read mailing lists in digest form. HTML (and other formats) tend to break in digest mode.
I hope you won't take offense, but this seems like the only good reason to me. Surely, in the year 2005, when the HTML 4 spec has been around for eight years and has been commonly used to style emails for not much less time than that, it is reasonable to assume that any mail reader can parse it? From a purist point of view, I agree that emails should be in plain text. The reason I style them is because I like them to look pretty for less computer-savvy types who I regularly email, who don't know how to style things on their end. Additionally, there are some things that plain text simply won't do, and which I do occasionally use (lists being one). I'm not meaning to stir or be a pest; I just don't understand why any mail client in use today would not support HTML; or why people would turn it off? Surely, unless you're using OE, security isn't a problem. People seem to manage browsing the web without issues, and that's a far less controlled and predictable environment than email. So, as I asked before with my sudo question, what am I missing? Are people just pig-headed snobs who like to feel wronged and stand out as martyrs for the Old School? Bnonn