| > Curious, without HTML do you expect everyone to copy-paste confirmation and password reset links? Yes, I do. > How do you account for broken links due to message truncate or unicode rendering? I've never encountered a broken hyperlink due to message truncation or Unicode rendering. My terminal emulator is set to use the UTF-8 character-set. Please provide an example or demonstration of this. > What about aligning various sections of the message? Text comes left-aligned in most of the world and right-aligned elsewhere. What kind of alignment are you referring to here? > Controlling the font size of header, body and footer? What's the value in altering the appearance of the text you want to send to someone? > HTML has as much history in emails as it does in the web. Incorrect. > Taking HTML out of email is as hard as trying to take the Smart Phone out of phones today. I don't have a "smart" phone. What can I gain by owning one? |
There are two limits that this standard places on the number of characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF. [1]
>What kind of alignment are you referring to here?
>Controlling the font size of header, body and footer?
I am talking about visual separations within the message. In pure text, everything carries the same weight, same font and same color. From the link of the site in the header to the unsubscribe at the bottom gets prominently displayed to you.
>Incorrect.
Well I couldn't find any reliable information to counter that. However as far I can remember, HTML emails have existed in the early days of Hotmail and Yahoo.
[1]http://mailformat.dan.info/body/linelength.html