From tony@webavant.com Sat Jul 14 15:57:33 2007
From: Tony Zielinski <tony@webavant.com>
To: dev@lists.roundcube.net
Subject: Re: HTML E-Mails from eBay
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:51:55 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <441C36AB.1060703@dotfive.com>
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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.

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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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