On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:49:56PM +1000, Tim Starling wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 01:58:52PM +1000, Tim Starling wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
Text email is universal. HTML email alienates a great many people. If I wanted to see HTML, I'd use a browser or an HTML editor.
Check out this survey, done in 2003: http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt8/email_format_preferences.htm
87% of the non-technical survey group reported being able to read HTML email, and 93% of the business group. HTML was reported to be preferred over plain text by both groups.
Oh, well, since it's more than 50% we can afford to just shoot and bury the remainder. Okay. No problem, then.
Excuse me, I never advocated one course of action over another. That was my first post to this thread. I have no strong opinion either way, so instead of adding to the bluster and speculation, I thought I'd contribute some relevant information, in the hopes that the opinions subsequently formed might be better educated. For the sake of civil discussion, please keep your temper in check.
Apparently, I wasn't clear in my intent. That wasn't temper: it was a bit of flippancy meant to point out the irrelevancy of a majority. The problem here is that, though users of text-only clients are a minority, it is not an insignificant minority -- and to actually EXCLUDE them is a suboptimal decision, at least.
My temper is in check, though my sense of humore may be obscure and perhaps tasteless at times.
-- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]