Re: Displaying HTML with images

"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:46e68cf7$0$47152$892e7fe2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

While there's nothing wrong with using hooks in Pine to have some of
these attachments displayed by outside programs, I wouldn't want this
to be native to Pine. It's controversial that Pine can parse HTML
alternate part attachments natively, sheesh.

What is the contraversy? I realize the gui email clients provide the option
to both send and read html as the default format. Having never done it, I
do not know how I would send a web page with embedded images, using pine.
Perhaps, the webpage is the main text message, and attach each image as an
attachment?

Perhaps you'd get a better result by saving, rather than extracting,
although I didn't think Pine offers both options except with the email
message itself. I hope you created a new directory to receive the
files. Without looking at the code, I'll guess that some of the
problems with view files are from unexpected directory levels, minor
corruptions added by the person who sent you the attachment.

If you press E for extract and then ctrp-P, pine saves the main text and
all attachments in a separate directory. One can then make whatever
filename or directory level adjustments necessary to display the complete
webpage. One can also scan the files with a virus scanner, before opening
the files, and for extra fun, use firefox with no-script to make sure there
are no nasty java programs or scripts to make trouble for your computer.
Quite a pain - actually.

I believe a simple `save' of the message saves everything, including the
mime encoded html and images to the folder you designate.

However, somehow, emailers like thunderbird permit you to click a button
and immediately display html + images - either in a full browser, or in its
own native, more safe ``simple html'' browser which excludes javascript and
java code. And you can still run a virus scan before doing this.


My suggestion would be not to use email to transfer Web pages, but I
just have this silly notion that HTML belongs on the Web and that
images shouldn't be embedded in email messages.

Here here, I am with you! Email started as simple, useful plain text
message transfer. Now `text messaging' has become something little cell
phone devices and such do. Somebody or bodies - decided to make email the
vehicle for transferring every conceivable type of content from one
internet node to another - images, web pages, spreadsheets, calenders,
meeting schedules, songs, videos - -. Surely there must have been a better
way (ftp?).

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