[Swlug] HTML email moratorium

Lisi Reisz lisi.reisz at gmail.com
Thu Nov 14 12:09:12 UTC 2013


On Thursday 14 November 2013 11:29:28 Matt Willsher wrote:
> On 14 November 2013 11:08, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 November 2013 10:44:39 Richard John wrote:
> > > *What's wrong with HTML emails?😍😄😃*
> >
> > Speaking personally, and as someone partially sighted, it usually
> > makes things impossible to read.  The sender gets to choose the
> > font, size and colours.  I usually give up.  Plain text I can,
> > and do, format for myself.
>
> Clients that send HTML usually send the mail plain text too - just
> configure your client to default to that.

I have and it does.  But some people (e.g. Waitrose) send only HTML.

I haven't actually had any of this particular thread displayed as 
HTML.

Lisi



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