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Why not offer both? A well made HTML email will make it easier for your recipients to actually read your email.
HTML emails already offer both, hidden in the mime message is a plain text version. Clients just usually don't show the plain text one when there is an html version.
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That boat sailed a long time ago. I do like pleasant stuff. Please, if you want me to read your email, don't send me plain text emails.
If you care more about how the email looks than the content, then odds are that the people who you are sending the email to do not want to receive it. It's only when I don't know you and you're trying to sell me something that you need to make the email visually appealing.
(not much can be said for badly designed marketing messages though)
I'm not sure having an email be 900px wide (the table has 3 300px wide cells) is a good idea. Wouldn't that get a horizontal scrollbar on the iPad no matter the orientation? When it's horizontal there's a sidebar; when it's vertical it's only 768px wide.
Thanks for the input benatkin. The table was really just an example but I definitely agree that a more standard width table would be better. I updated it to 600px in width.
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If you care more about how the email looks than the content, then odds are that the people who you are sending the email to do not want to receive it. It's only when I don't know you and you're trying to sell me something that you need to make the email visually appealing.
which while i understand and concur with your hatred of unsolicited sales emails, is the point of them :) much the same as ads on TV, i don't want to see then but if im going to be forced to, at least don't make them offend my eyes, (not much can be said for badly designed marketing messages though)
HTML emails SUCKS. Use goddamn plaintext.
Whether you like it or not, most business emails will be sent in HTML. People want it to look nice, people want to be able to put links in their emails so recipients can click through and they make money, they want to put tracking codes, etc.
Regardless of anyone's personal preference, emails will be in HTML for a long, long time.
XHTML sucks. Transitional does even more. So does HTML mail. Use plaintext for god's sake.
I'm not sure having an email be 900px wide (the table has 3 300px wide cells) is a good idea. Wouldn't that get a horizontal scrollbar on the iPad no matter the orientation? When it's horizontal there's a sidebar; when it's vertical it's only 768px wide.
Seems like the designers of both must be using widescreens...
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That boat sailed a long time ago. I do like pleasant stuff. Please, if you want me to read your email, don't send me plain text emails.
If you care more about how the email looks than the content, then odds are that the people who you are sending the email to do not want to receive it. It's only when I don't know you and you're trying to sell me something that you need to make the email visually appealing.