Re: [APPS-REVIEW] HTML5 for email client implementors

[Paul Hoffman <phoffman at imc.org>]

At 10:38 AM -0700 9/15/08, Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>I've been looking at HTML5 (http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/) and its 
>gigantic spec, and discussing a bit with the W3C and IETF liaisons.  
>It's a drastic new approach to HTML.  One of the aspects I'd like to 
>see get IETF input, is the expansion in scope of requirements.
>
>Can an email client be compliant with HTML5 -- is that a reasonable 
>expectation?  What about other software applications that use HTML but 
>are not browsers?
>
>If you can take a look and answer this question, the HTML5 WG does of 
>course encourage direct input to its mailing list (specified in doc 
>linked above).  A volunteer aka victim for that would be best, if not 
>several.  But if you can reply off-the-cuff to me or this group, that
>alone would be a good thing.

A bit of history. The Internet Mail Consortium talked about HTML 
compliance about eight years ago and walked away from it. There was a 
strong user expectation that an HTML-encoded message would appear in 
the MUA the same as it would appear if opened in their favorite 
browser. At the time, there was not nearly as much renderer-sharing 
across applications as there is now. Because of that, some MUA 
vendors (including Microsoft) didn't show things the same as 
IE/Netscape did. The world renders differently now.
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