Responsive HTML Emails: a Different Strategy

Post by skdjf » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 3:42 PM UTC

blowski wrote: post #18

b6 wrote: post #17

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I very much prefer for emails to contain text only, or with HTML only as attachments, and it has absolutely zero to do with any desire to show off to other people. For me, it's all about keeping some control over technology. I tell a very limited program like mutt what to do, and it does it. This is in contrast to begging an incredibly complicated program like a browser to do something, where much of what it is doing…

> For me, it's all about keeping some control over technology. That's fair enough, but you are very much in a minority.

Post by alextingle » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 5:02 PM UTC

pbreit wrote: post #42

alextingle wrote: post #40

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...at distracting and confusing readers. If your goal is to distract and confuse people, by getting them to click on your ads and buy your products, then use HTML e-mail. If you want to communicate clearly, then stop worrying about layout & typography and concentrate on the words you are writing.

> If you want to communicate clearly, then stop worrying about layout & typography That's just wrong. Layout and typography are important elements to clear communication.

Post by joesb » Sun, Nov 03, 2013, 4:40 AM UTC

alextingle wrote: post #43

pbreit wrote: post #42

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> If you want to communicate clearly, then stop worrying about layout & typography That's just wrong. Layout and typography are important elements to clear communication.

Right, because when people are talking to you, all you hear is an incomprehensible stream of blah, blah, blah.