[pmmail-list] hyper-text?

[Tim Roberts]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 22:01:04 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:

>On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 13:42:17 -0700 "Tim Roberts" <timr@probo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> None of these say "this sequence of tags should be rendered in exactly
>> this way", but it isn't supposed to.  That level of detail isn't even
>> given for HTML via WWW.  The renderer (browser or mail reader) is
>> supposed to decide how to render the tags.  PMMail for Windows chooses
>> one method of rendering HTML.  Its method is valid, but it happens to
>> produce rather poor results.
>
>And there is the problem, can't rely on things looking how the sender
>saw them.

Yes, but that's the "fault" of HTML, not of HTML e-mail.  Your concluding 
sentence applies equally well to HTML when presented in a web browser.

--
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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