jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Aug 12 17:33:47 CDT 2009
I think we are saying the same thing Max. The email is (or at least CONTAINS) HTML. SOME rendering engine renders whatever it encounters. In this case the email presented has "correct" HTML one time, not another time. "Correct" is of course all relative since "correct" means one thing to IE6, vs IE7, IE8, Firefox or WHATEVER renderer is used in your case etc. In this case my email client is Thunderbird. So the email itself contains SOMETHING that my "renderer" cannot handle. But not EVERY email. Just the other day TWO out of THREE rendered incorrectly (did not show the graphics), the third displayed the pictures. And what is "incorrect"? Is it correct if it renders in Outlook but not in Thunderbird? Or VV? It is only "correct" if it renders with EVERY SINGLE RENDERING ENGINE thrown against it. Not something I want to go create, not to mention probably impossible for anything non-trivial. http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/2393/microsoft-takes-email-design-b/ According to this next link Thunderbird uses Gecko. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/E-mail/E-mail-Clients/Mozilla-Thunderbird.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_%28layout_engine%29 Oh the tangled web we have to sort through. I want to develop applications. So far all of my applications have run on Windows, inside of small companies. "Web based" does not seem to be useful to MY situation. If it is useful to yours, you have my condolances. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Max Wanadoo wrote: > Nope! It renders what is presented, nothing more, nothing less. If not > presented correctly, it renders incorrectly. > > Nothing if not argumentative. > > Max