Ertugrul Söylemez wrote:
> "Sebastian G." <seppi@seppig.de> wrote:
>
>>> What's wrong with HTML emails without remote content?
>> <!doctype stupid><html><head><meta name="foo"
>> content="bar"><title>baz</title></head><body><p>Nothing, it's very
>> readible if the receiver's client doesn't support HTML.</body></html>
>
> That's why usually there is also a text/plain part.
usually = not quite often?
What about MIME? There the plain/text part you get just reads "This is a
multipart MIME message".
>> Because there's no standard for it, neither de-jure nor de-facto?
>> because there is a standard to include some basic formatting
>> (text/enriched)? [...]
>
> MIME is a standard. It allows multipart-emails. HTML is also a
> standard. Together with a standard MIME type name for HTML, that makes
> HTML mails completely standardized.
No. It makes HTML files as attachments standardized.
>> Because it's a waste or bandwidth?
>
> A waste of bandwidth? A few kilobytes per person per day?
Would you please think of the children^W dial-up users?
> Demanding CR/LF instead of
> sole LF for telnet-like protocols (including HTTP) must be a waste also.
No. Actually I think the CR/LF interpretation is the correct one, and HTTP
is supposed to be human-readable on pure terminals.
> You want to know, what _really_ is a waste today? Two people from the
> same local subnet listening to the same internet radio station -- that
> _is_ a waste of traffic.
Well, it's not like my systems would deny the usage of multicast. You have
to blame my ISP.
>> Because eMail isn't supposed to emit any formatting?
>
> Oh yeah, everything that was made up in the 70s and 80s was ultimate.
> There is no reason for inventions. In fact, we don't even need X11 or
> OpenGL. Back to phosphor terminals!
Stupid. If you want a protocol for formatted documents, then either propose
a standard extension to eMail or a completely new protocol.
>> Because HTML is meant for hypertext, not formatted documents?
>
> Maybe HTML 1.0 was. Today, hypertext is one of many features of HTML.
Hypertext is the primary feature of HTML, even today.