Whats wrong with HTML-formatted email?
It annoys me 🙂 First, Internet standards specify that email should be sent as plain text only. This is important, because sending and receiving email should not depend on the operating system or a particular program you use. HTML-formatted email will be unreadable to millions of people who use systems other than Windows or email programs other than MS Outlook, Netscape or Eudora. If you know for certain that your recipient can read HTML email, this is not a problem, but very often you don’t know that. And when email becomes incompatible between systems or applications, the whole major idea of the Internet is lost and replaced by microsoft-net or something. Second – and to me, this is the most significant complaint – HTML formatted email is more than twice as large as the original plain text version. Usually, the program will send two copies of the message: one is a plain text copy (for those programs which cannot read HTML), the other is the HTML-formatted copy, which contains the te
