Re: [tlug] VT100 Display Capability in Email (Re: Rendering HTMLEmail)

[Godwin Stewart <godwin.stewart@example.com>]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:58:37 +0900, bruno raoult <bruno@example.com> wrote:

> Mais pour le Français, ça va bien, merci ;-)

Ben, comme ça on est deux :)

HTML bloat is even more undesireable in foreign languages where accents are
used. Think of the past participle "créé", 4 letters. Now put it into HTML
as coded in e-mails and you get "cr&eacute;&eacute;" - 18 characters. So,
in a multipart/alternative mail, you get the original 4 letters plus the 18
characters of the HTML version, that's 22 in total, and a 450% increase in
size, *and* I'm not counting the markup.

Now consider that ISPs *pay* for the bandwidth their subscribers consume
even if they don't visibly pass those costs down to the user in many
countries. If things get out of hand they have to increase the subscription
fee in order to pay for the excess bandwidth. In some countries, broadband
subscribers frequently have bandwidth quotas imposed, in others they pay
according to bandwidth used.

-- 
G. Stewart - godwin.stewart@example.com

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't blow up is probably the 
day they start making inflatable dolls.

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