[Elfan]

If you want email to be looked at and be delivered why would you use HTML?

[zach]

Um, pretty pictures and proportional text? Not everyone promotes their site features primarily to the digerati, you know.

[brlewis]

I think my photo-sharing site's use of HTML in email is justified.

[Elfan]

That is an interesting situation where a group of users might opt in and HTML could be a useful thing.

Are you sending photos via email? Aren't browsers generally a more pleasant way to view photos than mail clients?

[brlewis]

Having the thumbnails show in the email itself means people don't have to break their stride to know whether the photos are ones they're interested in. I keep in touch with a lot of family and old friends using the same email. Different people care about different photos.