On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:39 +1200, Oliver Jones wrote: <snip>
Another area where HTML email excels is in quoting previous messages. Many current MUAs break hideously when parsing previous text messages. How many of you have seen deep quotes go very bad with results like this:
people whose mailers don't understand the > > > > format you use to read your email. While you can > > > > feel free to inconvenience your friends as much as
Not very fun eh. Well with XHTML you can just <blockquote> everything and as long as the MUA nests them correctly the recipients MUA can flow everything very nicely. In fact, with the appropriate attributes and MUA support, quoted chucks can be colour coded and have author information attached so you even know who is quoting who.
There is no need to resort to HTML to fix this problem, RFC2646 defines format=flowed (see http://www.joeclark.org/ffaq.html for a great intro) which is intended to fix this exact problem, using *plain text*. Regards -- Matt Brown matt(a)mattb.net.nz Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz