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RE: Some comments on the 1.1 draft

• To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>,<michael.h.kay@n...>,"Richard Tobin" <richard@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Some comments on the 1.1 draft
• From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 20:26:27 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <4F4182C71C1FDD4BA0937A7EB7B8B4C103B03AA1@r...>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...]
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 8:21 PM
> To: michael.h.kay@n...; Richard Tobin; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  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 

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