On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 06:31:38PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > Al wrote: > > > I know this is a bit off-topic; but close enough. > > > > I'm starting to update the email feature of one of my DB applications > > and noticed that it appears most of the fancy emails I receive are > > using just plain old, simple html pages, with a note about not being > > able to see, go here with a link. Such emails are stupid. Obviously I can read the email quite fine. The problem is that there is no useful content. Just an instruction to click on a link. > > It use to be that we specified content-type text/html, etc. and sent > > both the plain ASCII and the html with boundaries and so forth. > > Yes, multipart/alternative that was. > > > Seems like, from my preliminary Google searching, I should not waste > > time with the standard's way and just go straight to sending simple > > html pages since all modern browsers handle it well. > > And, it appears to be the way web is going. Then I will never read your email. Browsers are for web pages, not email. > > What are you folks doing? > > We follow the standard and send both text and html. The text portion is the *only* portion I read. -- "When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion." -- Dale Carnegie Rick Pasotto rick@xxxxxxxx http://www.niof.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php