d2r: another screenshot -- more complex html

another screenshot -- more complex html

Keith was wondering how spaces handled HTML email and I posted the screenshot for an RSS Entry feed from Scripting News. He then commented (here as well as an update of his original entry):

Hey cool! I'm not trying to be disparaging, but how's it handle e-mails from places like Amazon.com?

No disparage at all :-). The question is valid because Amazon (and other places--and many email clients) don't send simply HTML email with a "text/html" MIME type, they send "multiplart/alternative" or "multipart/mixed" messages that are more complex to parse and require a bit of special handling. Spaces can handle them too though. Here is a screenshot of an autoresponse from Amazon:

(click on the image to see a larger version, 1000x700, ~150KB).

Categories: technology
Posted by diego on October 29 2002 at 11:37 PM

Comments (please see the comments & trackback policy).

That's great. Now how about making HTML display optional? Since most HTML email is multipart, it would be nice to have a setting that allows me to choose to always display the text version if it's available.

Just because a client can display HTML mail doesn't mean the user wants to read it that way.

Posted by: Adam Kalsey at October 30, 2002 3:32 AM

Options, more options, and yet a few more options.

Although this might prove to be useful for some users, it would probably never be used by most. However, by including it as an option to yet another dialog box would make the UI heavy and open the possibility of it being misused by a novice user.

Posted by: Chris at October 30, 2002 8:40 AM