For years those who think they have all of the power but are in reality
powerless have been saying the same thing -- HTML doesn't belong in email.
It is time to GET REAL! You remind me so much of some of my friends that use
Linux/Net BSD. That believe email should be only text. Most of them still
use Lynx is their preferred browser.
Times have changed. It is a visual world and email is well as the Web
should be visual.
iframe tag has only be considered insecure in the Microsoft world not the
real computer world -- meaning those of us who prefer to use other products –
otherwise the W3C would not put is part the standard . Microsoft ideal of
fixing vulnerabilities is to disable the features not fix the code. If you
cannot execute the real HTML/xHTML standards set forth by W3C. Instead
Microsoft feels that it should be the “standards†creator by change or
ignoring the standards. This has been a problem since the beginning of home
computing -- until DOS, one computer could not easily read another maker’s
floppy disk. W3C has done a pretty good job of developing HTML standards.
The parish that I do the newsletter and most if all communications and
definitely all of the electronic communications for are still living in the
first half of the 20th century. Until recently the Internet access was done
with one dialup account with one phone line. The four users were having to
call each other to see if anyone was on the Internet and ask them how much
longer they were going to be. I have now got the whole church/parish hall as
a hot spot -- no longer do they staff members have to call each other. Most
of those who have computers at home barely know how to do email let alone
email messages that contain links. Most use email but have no idea about the
web… in fact the one that was doing so call information technology told them
not to every click on links in email as you could end up with a virus.
I subscribe to the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) theory for the members of my
parish. iframe is simple while clicking on a link may be simple for us that
are computer savvy, it isn’t for those who only use the computer for quick
and cheap communication. Because Outlook, IMHO, is not user friendly and
should never really be used by someone who doesn’t know that much about
computers, I recommend to the users of the parish that they load thunderbird
on their system… I have even free of charge went to members of my parish’s
home and installed in configured Thunderbird where embedding dynamic HTML is
not at risk and who actually fix their product and not limit the usage
because they are not capable of fixing the product. BTW… the only real
secure computer is one that doesn’t have a network adaptor but this makes
nothing more than a glorified word processor or local game machine.
I would like to thank you for NOT answering my question.
George
