> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Allen [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 8:21 PM
> To: ; Richard Tobin;
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Some comments on the 1.1 draft
>
>
> > and hopefully, as characters in our email
>
> I don't think technology will block that so much as the
> curmudgeonly people who flame anyone who dares send e-mail in
> such new-fangled encodings as HTML. If we have had HTML for ten
> years and people still get scorched for sending it in e-mail, I
> don't have very high hopes for any further evolution in e-mail
> encoding capabilities. Even in 2007, when the majority of the
> Internet communicates in Chinese utf-16, I bet Western Europe
> will still be arguing about whether or not e-mail should allow XML.
Well,
I guess people would be less negative about HTML in emails if there weren't all these email programs with security holes regarding execution of embedded client-side scripts.
Julian
