<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Matt Connolly <<a href="mailto:matt@cabinetuk.com">matt@cabinetuk.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><br><div>Besides, email clients have been HTML friendly for a *long* time, so I don't see why Drupal shouldn't have an interface that understands rich email messages.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>Have you even tried to make an HTML email look the same in multiple email clients? That stuff is impossible... and forget it if you want colored anchors or css support consistently. Heck they don't even send mime attachments consistently... They all do something close to spec... and lets not even get into the quirks of various webmail clients and the pluthera of different versions of MS Outlook in the wild and still supported by MS.<br>
<br>You basically have a minimum of 8 different applications that handle HTML slightly differently. There are also major variations per version... If you thought cross browser support was annoying you haven't seen anything yet...<br>
<br>apple: mac mail<br>windows: outlook 8 -> present, including express variations.<br>// each outlook seems to use a different combination renderer and mime library.<br>linux: evolution<br>cross platform: eudora mac, eudora pc, thunderbird<br>
web: gmail, windows live/hotmail, yahoo <br><br><br>but using drupal_render ++<br><br>.darrel.<br></div></div></div>