Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> writes:
Yes, a series of body parts with Content-Disposition: Inline could give
a similar effect. But why is it better than HTML?
It doesn't require supporting active content in the mail reader. (And
HTML *is* active content; anything that results in any sort of outgoing
network connection, such as <img> tags, is inherently active content. If
you disable all of that, you get a stripped version of HTML that may
possibly be mostly safe unless you use Microsoft's HTML rendering engine,
but almost no one does that.)
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Russ Allbery (rra(_at_)stanford(_dot_)edu)
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