On 5 Apr 2005 at 13:52, Orion Edwards wrote:
<everyone posted loads of crap>
Basically my issue with HTML email is not a technical one but a social one. The intent of a webpage (in my opinion, feel free to not agree) is to convey rich media, filled with images and tables and formatting and that kind of crap. A web page is trying to show off.
To some web designers perhaps.
An email however, is a message from one person to another. There's no reason that you can't write plain text emails and not convey everything you want. Perhaps you want a diagram but that's what attachments are for. My personal view of email analagous to ICQ/MSN messenger/etc. Do you think people should be allowed to send HTML messages via MSN? I'd hope not. If so then why emails?
I would argue that a web page (in fact anything containing semantic symbols) is a message from one person to another. Some people may use that to show off at the expense of direct communication; others may prefer their web designs to communicate rather than visually/aurally amaze.