Re: "Text vs. HTML" (My final comment)
Re: "Text vs. HTML" (My final comment)
- Subject: Re: "Text vs. HTML" (My final comment)
- From: Tudor Vedeanu <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:07:12 +0300
On 22.09.2005, at 15:22, Fred Showker wrote:
The use of external images, (sometimes only 1 x 1 pixel) are the
posts you do NOT want to load or receive. This has been one of
the most successful techniques employed by predators, spammers
and organized online crime.
For God's sake, we're talking about emails from Apple here, what does
this have to do with the organized crime???
Followed by another fallacy ...
> Therefore, the message body is still plain text (it contains
> HTML code, but not pictures) and it is small.
Incorrect.
The user's email client STILL has to load every single pixel of
the tagged remote image. This is further exasperated by requiring
the users system and client to make the call and then negotiate the
individual packets from the remote server BEFORE it can begin to
display the image.
Sorry, you are wrong. In Apple Mail and other email clients, if I
don't press the "Load images" button for each HTML email, the images
are NOT loaded from server.
Look guys, I'm not trying to convince anyone to do anything. I just
hate when people are guided by misconceptions. The question was
simple: what do you preffer, text or HTML. The answers should've been
simple as well. But instead, almost everybody tried to explain how
bad is HTML in emails, sometimes with invalid arguments, trying to
hammer those who preffer HTML. What's wrong with me and others who
preffer HTML? Can't you just choose plain text and let others do what
they wish? Apple's UGAB did not ask us about how to make an HTML
email, nor how to design a bulletin, nor how much bandwith they
should spend on their servers. If they can spend time and bandwith
making a dual HTML/plain text version of the bulletin, so be it,
what's wrong with this?
Please don't take this personally. I am 33 years old and I believe I
am one of the youngest members of this list. That's my fault: I'm not
going to be stuck with old misconceptions about internet and
technology. Times change.
Tudor Vedeanu
Macuser.ro Ambassador
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