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tbsingleton73 03-14-2006 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sophie356
True to a point. But I think it looks more professional being able to use basic fonts, I cannot even show my email address in the typical 'blue' colour that is easily spotted in an email. I guess is just me being fussy, but it is frustrating - and unfair - that these luxuries are not as easily accessable on Macs as they are on PC's. Of course, I'd still go for a Mac over PC every time, so I guess I will just have to be patient.
If anyone has any more thoughts...

I use Mail and am able to have my email address show like you want.
I have a nice signature with a clickable mail link and company website link.
Seems more a limitation of Yahoo or Hotmail with Mac, than Mac itself.

kawliga 03-14-2006 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sophie356
True to a point. But I think it looks more professional being able to use basic fonts...


It only looks more professional to you--given the nature of email it may very well look like garbage to your recipient.

The point AHunter is making is this: Email is natively text only. While some email clients have added html interpreting capability (and maybe other methods) in an attempt to get past text only, you have no real control over how your recipients' client reads it.

In email, you're much better off getting by with text-only type setting methods.

LIKE ALL CAPS (SPARINGLY PLEASE) FOR EMPHASIS

- a dash or
* an asterisk for a bullet point

-----------------------------------------
long lines of hyphens to divide logical sections

It may look less professional, but nothing like mail client-mangled attempts at real typesetting.

And in a related point, NEVER USING I.E. Nobody should ever reward Web sites that design only for this non-compliant, piece of crap browser. Send the Web site's support staff an email stating plainly your regrets that they design for only some people, and find another site. IE is only the way it is because Microsoft wanted to bully everyone with another Embrace and Extend assault. Such sheer gall of trying to dominate Internet practices with their own proprietary garbage. That behavior should be punished not rewarded. IE must die. Cloaking as IE is almost as bad because the site does not lose traffic and never finds out how evil and lazy they are being.

Raven 03-14-2006 02:41 PM

Then never take a look at IncrediMail :) I think its the wrose one, competing head to head with Outlook and Outlook Express with the extra tool bars and pluggin crap to add smily faces, emoctions, animated gifs, horribly huge backgrounds that make the emails take an eternity to load and then cause you don't have the same software the text is messed up... As others stated.. If you have a very nice document with pictures and such to pass on, better to just have an email that states FWI and what the doc refers to and attach it. That way your pretty sure, especially if your sending a PDF, that the other person will see exactly what you want them to and not what their computer interprets.

trumpet_999 03-14-2006 05:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raven
... But I do love going to sites such as this one: scan.sygate.com and having my Mac scanned just to find out that it thinks I'm running IE 6 on Win2k ;)

so your using a debug menu to fool it or it's just wrong? It scanned mine fine:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...t_999/scan.jpg

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Raven 03-15-2006 09:19 AM

When using an Agent... Not standard...
Example: User agent selected is Windows MSIE 6.0 and Stealth mode is on

-----------------------------------------------------

Trying to gather information from your web browser...

Operating System = Windows NT 5.2
Browser = Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

Trying to find out your computer name...

Unable to determine your computer name!


Trying to find out what services you are running...

Unable to detect any running services!
-----------------------------------------------------

Neat ain't it ?


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