Re: Question "Text vs. HTML"
Re: Question "Text vs. HTML"
- Subject: Re: Question "Text vs. HTML"
- From: Tudor Vedeanu <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:30:16 +0300
On 20.09.2005, at 23:44, Paul Richards wrote:
I'll take the big sheet with black plain text (the part that
carries the news I am interested in) and will skip over the
"beautifully designed" glossy color advertising circulars stuck in
the middle, thank you very much. At least, that's what I do with
the newspaper I pick up at my front door every morning.
Paul Richards, Ambassador
Well Paul, I don't know if you are aware of this, but your own
message posted on this list has been sent in HTML format. The same
for Greg Maxwell's email and others. Both emails look better on my
screen, and they are easier to read than the usual plain text messages.
In my example with the newspaper I wasn't talking about ads. I was
reffering to colors, custom fonts carefully chosen, columns, drop
caps, custom kerning and leading and many other design techniques
that make a newspaper easier and more pleasant to read. I know
because I work with those things. I'm pretty sure that you'll have a
hard time reading a big sheet of paper with plain text set up with
the font Monaco at 12 points in one single wide column. But this is
another topic.
Would you also like to see all websites in plain text rather than HTML?
So what I was trying to explain here, is the fact that HTML emails
can me made small, readable and accessible for everyone. I'm not
trying to convince Apple's User Group Advisory Board to switch to
HTML. I also emphasized that if HTML is considered, the people on the
list must have the possibility to choose between text and HTML.
Tudor Vedeanu
Macuser.ro Ambassador
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