Re: HTML for email

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 3/2/21 9:08 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>
> When dealing with lists in general, do the text only thinkg and you 
> end up with
> delightful stuff like messages that say, "Please see the HTML part for 
> the
> actual content of this message". Or "This message can only be read by 
> a client
> that supports HTML".

My experience echos this.  A few years ago I prototyped a system for 
allowing annotations (among other things) on email list messages.  In 
order to do that I had to parse incoming messages, convert them to HTML 
if necessary, and add links to those messages at appropriate places.   
(think "click here to annotate") What I found for multipart/alternative 
messages was that the HTML quite often didn't reflect the actual 
structure of the message so it was hard to use, and I actually 
experimented with converting the HTML to plain text before doing further 
processing.   But the text portion of the multipart/alternative messages 
were often worse, because of things like Ned cited.

Keith