[Kde-pim] HTML support in Kmail

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday, 2009-11-09, nicco ts wrote:

> And to Kevin
> 
> > Too many people assumed the receipient gets what they write which of
> > course is not true since (a) Word exports to HTML and (b) it totally
> > depends on how the receipient's mail user agent renders the content that
> > Word thinks is HTML.
> 
> I know the way how Word do it. But while we cry for HTML e-mail
> support then Windows users use it for 5 or more years and companies
> and people pay a lot of money to get it. Do they mind the wrong way?
> Do they waste with their bandwidth or their LAN is collapsing because
> e-mail from Outlook is not 10kB but 600kB?

I think you miunderstood what I wrote.
This was not about HTML in emails, but about using Word, or rather any text 
processor as an email composer. Because even on Windows this does not work.

A word processor, especially one from an office suite (embedding and all) is 
far to advanced for what HTML can do, but since there is no indication in the 
word processing UI which of its functions cannot be represented properly in 
HTML, people start sending garbish without knowing.

I had to demonstrate this personally to several small business owners who 
complained about their associates inability of sending correctly formatted 
emails. They didn't realize they were "guilty" of the same thing until shown 
that their receipients are just too polite to tell them about it.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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