Re: FN-FORUM HTML HATE

date posted 22nd January 2001 19:01

Had a feeling that was an old debate. SO much vitriole.
And I knew the techie answer would be "we can't make it work without
re-coding it" :)
thanks for clearing that up then, some points make sense, although you
said...

> - Many people use mail clients which simply cannot understand HTML.

i prefer to push limits rather than keep tidily inside them. Some people do
not have a computer but we're not gonna phone them up and read our emails
out to them are we? What if they don't have a phone? Or they're blind? Or
nocturnal?

Obviously this attitude comes from designing flash, i don't think you should
make your site HTML 2.0 compatible just because 3 users a year have got a
problem with comprehending the simplicity of the plugin...

Mark "my eyes are not compatible with infra-red light but i'd love to get a
plugin" Harold





----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Stowell" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 6:26 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM HTML HATE


> Hi
>
> The main reasons myself, Dan, and many others try to stop HTML emailing
> being sent to list are:
>
> - We also send out a daily digest of the posts to the forum, the digest is
> not capable of
> displaying HTML correctly.
> - Many people use mail clients which simply cannot understand HTML.
> - We will soon (well hopefully soon, we have been promising for a while!)
be
> introducing a new email forum which will automatically reject HTML
formatted
> email, so it's better to get in practice now!
> - An email in plain text is smaller in size than one which is HTML
> formatted.
>
> I'm sure there were many other reasons as well but I can't remember them!
>
> Hope this helps explain the issues!
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> > If someone would care to list them politely and succintly maybe
> > we can move
> > on, without a big row erupting again......
> >
>
>
> ============================================================
>
> * Free listing for freelancers
> * Free to advertise jobs
> * Free jobs distribution service
> * Free database of 1000 freelancers
>
> Freelancers and Freelance Jobs
> http://www.freelancers.net
>
> To post to the Forum:
> [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> To unsubscribe please email:
> [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> If you have difficulties unsubscribing please email:
> [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> To subscribe to the digest for this list or for further information please
visit:
> http://www.freelancers.net/forum.html