From chris@xhost.com.au Sat Jul 14 15:57:33 2007
From: Chris Fordham <chris@xhost.com.au>
To: dev@lists.roundcube.net
Subject: Re: HTML E-Mails from eBay
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:54:08 +1100
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I'm not sure what RC does with HTML parts, but I have heard that it  
doesn't really support them - can someone confirm?
I have managed to make hybrid layouts with html 4.01 to work in most  
clients.
Lots of servers strip HTML a lot, especially hotmail.

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:51:55 +1100, Tony Zielinski <tony(a)webavant.com>  
wrote:

> Brady,
>
> I beg to differ with your opinion of the eBay HTML email that he Stefan  
> Ott
> attached.  You say that it was coded using old standards, I'm sure you're
> right, but for a good reason.  I tried using <div> tags for layout  
> instead
> of <table> tags with horrendous display in RoundCube.  It looked good in
> other clients. I submitted a post about this earlier to the dev list,  
> but no
> one responded.
>
> Not related to RoundCube, but try coding all design and layout using a
> stylesheet with no inline HTML attributes and viewing it in gmail or  
> other
> another popular webmail.  Outlook and AppleMail display the output okay  
> for
> the most part, except the links don't get the same treatment that they  
> would
> in IE or FireFox... For real kicks, try kMail for KDE.
>
> I always code my HTML email pages plain vanilla HTML 2.0 circa 1995  
> fashion
> for the above reasons.  Using 'style' attributes inline with HTML tags  
> seems
> to work okay in the clients I've tested as well as long as you don't use
> 'class' or 'id' attributes it seems to work well.
>
> --
> Tony Zielinski
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brady J. Frey [mailto:brady(a)dotfive.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 8:35 AM
> To: Stefan Ott
> Cc: dev(a)lists.roundcube.net; users(a)lists.roundcube.net
> Subject: Re: HTML E-Mails from eBay
>
> Stefan Ott wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use Roundcube 0.1beta and I have problems with E-Mails from eBay. I  
>> only
>> get a blank page, with all other html mails it works. I attached the
> source
>> of an eBay mail maybe someone can figure it out what causes this  
>> problem.
>>
>> Thanks
>> steve`
>>
>>
> Aside from the fact that, even for HTML email which is behind the
> standards times, that HTML looks like a 5 year old coded it -- the
> rendering of all html is based on  the browser you are using -- what
> browser is that?
>
>
>
>
>
>



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