Whether you hate or love HTML email, in your inbox today chances are good that one of your messages was written in it. There is lot of reasons to avoid HTML email and writing HTML emails.
Testing email is almost impossible.
Some people still read the mails in the text mode even if the clients support HTML:
You may consider these people are extremely techno phobic, but many a people do not prefer HTML and they tend to read emails in the text mode.
Emails of HTML are flagged as spam:
Amount of HTML is used by spam assassins and other spam brokers in Email messages as an indication to know whether the email is a spam or not. HTML is used because spammers have discovered that HTML emails are quite quicker than the average emails and it is much more efficient in generating click than a simple text.
Styled emails get better results:
Emails styled with fancy text and images can be pleasing to read than a plain text. So the people who read your emails which are styled will respond or take quicker action seeing your message.
Emails of HTML can be a security risk:
Emails of HTML enable hateful senders to insert Trojans and other hateful entities into an email messages. Some clients will mechanically open images and attachments inserted in HTML emails, by doing so your system will be infected without taking ay action other than downloading the Email.
Emails of HTML are longer to download:
WebPages are slightly different than Emails, in that most people won’t wait for one email message to download. For your recipients it can be frustrating if one of the messages is so large that it stops rest of their Emails.
Writing HTML Email is fun:
Email of HTML is fun to write just like writing WebPages. Time can be spend time by designing how your messages will come crosswise.
HTML email can generate privacy issues:
If you read an HTML email, you have viewed the images and the fact the Email was opened and is recorded.
Many of the email clients don’t reliably support CSS:
This is mostly a matter for the web designers who are learning to write standard HTML for their WebPages. When they put same design in their WebPages their clients will choke. CSS is not a well supported with email clients except for basic styles like italics, colours and bold.
Many clients of email default to HTML email:
Clients like AOL and outlook express use HTML email as their default, to provide their users with embedded images and text formatting. It is very much complicated to turn off HTML as their default.
Some individuals really hate HTML:
There are some people, who really hate using HTML and they will delete those messages which are unread.
Some individuals really love HTML:
Some people love t use HTML because they like the plain text and in this there will be no images it will be lot easier for the user to read it.