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On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, ebl7@chebucto.ns.ca wrote:
> I don't quite understand your comment about professional
> correspondence being in plain text. There are many reasons why one
> would want to BOLD a word or use /italics/ even in a professional
> letter. As you can see (assuming it will appear this way to you), I
> have figured out HTML. This will be helpful when submitting my
> poetry that sometimes contains words in italics and I will be able
> to centre when that is how one of my poems is supposed to appear.
(Snip)
*** I'd like to weigh in here regarding the usage of html in
e-mails.
If the recipient is OK with html (such as with your poetry example)
then use it. All other e-mails should be in plain text because:
1/ html takes up three to ten times the space of plain text. This
might be an issue with recipients that receive a lot of e-mail or
receive large attachments. Too many html messages might overflow that
person's inbox.
As an extreme example: I once received a three-line e-mail
containing a person's address. He sent it in html which came with
*160* lines of useless html code. GRRRR!
2/ I get *hundreds* of e-mails because I have four websites. I (and
others in similar situations) find when reading the day's e-mails,
that it's easier when they all are in the same font, type size and
colour. It's very annoying to get one e-mail with oversize type in
black and then the next is in undersized type in pink. Plain text
evens that all out.
3/ Html messages often contain icons and small accompanying images.
These e-mails take longer to download for those with narrow-band
connections.
I (and likely others bothered by all this) simply turn off html as
the default or use a text-based e-mail service, so none of those
carefully crafted html e-mails and their images are ever seen anyway.
Just some things to keep in mind when sending e-mails. (-:
Richard Bonner
Chebucto User Help
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