On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 15:30 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > But this is just a declaration. The message doesn't actually contain > any html code, AFAICS. Things like <head>, <body>, and other tags. A HTML message section doesn't actually have to have any HTML tags, just needs to be treated as if it might. i.e. Any HTML elements that are found are parsed as per HTML rules, and the content treated the same as if it were being parsed as HTML. e.g. All white space condensed to just one white space, line endings ignored, etc. The head and body tags can be present, or just presumed to be present in the right place for them. Likewise for other tags. The original message HTML content had a few line breaks (BR tags) inserted, to break the text in the desired places, but let line wrapping fit the width of your viewing pane. And had a few character entities (#39). The first thing (the line breaks and letting the reader pane fit to the viewer's preferred width), is actually a useful feature of HTML mail (one of the few), and not always neatly do-able with other techniques. The ability to use character entities can be useful, though it was pointless in this particular case (it was the ordinary ASCII apostrophe mark). For instance, if they'd used some character that you couldn't render, for any reason, instead of seeing a meaningless "?" in the message, you'd see a code that you could interpret and understand. The original post's scant use of HTML, only using the most basic, and not bloating it with numerous nested tags and pointless ones (e.g. font sizes all over the place, tables inside tables, etc.), make it one of the better examples of HTML in an email. But that seems to be the exception to the rule, people using dislike HTML for good reasons (bloated content, quoting difficulty, security hazards, etc.). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
