Closed Bug 200128 Opened 22 years ago Closed 10 years ago

HTML Support in Emails

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Message Display
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: vgendler, Unassigned, NeedInfo)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Email does not handled some HTML tags properly. Some examples. 1. Tag a - link. Parameter target="_self" and others work as target="_blank". The linked page always outputs in a separate window. Note: From time to time I am getting emails with links inside which open it in the email window. 2. Tags abbr and acronym do not show tooltips. I have not tried all of them so there may be more. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See above Actual Results: Some tags do not work properly in email window. Expected Results: Should work.
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Assignee: sspitzer → mail
This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01". This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code. While your input is very important to us, our resources are limited and so we are asking for your help in focussing our efforts. If you can still reproduce this problem in the latest version of the product (see below for how to obtain a copy) or, for feature requests, if it's not present in the latest version and you still believe we should implement it, please visit the URL of this bug (given at the top of this mail) and add a comment to that effect, giving more reproduction information if you have it. If it is not a problem any longer, you need take no action. If this bug is not changed in any way in the next two weeks, it will be automatically resolved. Thank you for your help in this matter. The latest beta releases can be obtained from: Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.5beta1.html Seamonkey: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
I confirm: this bug exists in the latest version.
Hi, I don't understand why you want that a link in an email should replace the text of the email. It would be very confusing for the user. http://www.la-grange.net/w3c/html4.01/types.html#h-6.16 http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/types.html#h-6.16 Could you explain what should be the result of a _self link?
(In reply to comment #3) > Hi, > > I don't understand why you want that a link in an email should replace the text > of the email. It would be very confusing for the user. > > http://www.la-grange.net/w3c/html4.01/types.html#h-6.16 > http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/types.html#h-6.16 > > Could you explain what should be the result of a _self link? > 1. Actually, it does not matter "why" - this is the way how it should work. But I explained "why" in the original report. With this attribute link opens in the same (HTML) window, in case of email opens in the email text itself. From time to time I am getting such messages. Usually it is an HTML form to fill up and reply with my answers. 2. By the way, I just now discovered that it not the email bug. The same (incorrect) way Mozilla composer creates ordinary HTML page - ignores this tag parameter "target". Mozilla Composer is used to build an email letter and this is why it does not work in letters.
QA Contact: esther → search
Assignee: mail → nobody
QA Contact: search → message-display
I am not familiar with HTML mail, so I am not sure whether I do understand all details of this report. My test. 1. Send account settings to "Create HTML mails" 2. open new e-mail for send 3. Copy 3 words "ich hier einen" from a web page, "hier" with a hyperlink in it. 4. Save as draft and check view: looks ok, "hier2 underlined with working hyperlink 5. Check source code: <body bgcolor=3D"#FFFFFF" text=3D"#000000"> ich <a title=3D"&quot;Mein Fall&quot;" href=3D"https://telekomhilft.telekom.de/t5/Frage-stellen/2-vom-alten-Prov= ider-%C3%BCbertragene-Rufnummern-nicht-erreichbar/qaq-p/1199045/comment-i= d/502996/search-sort-type-order/date#M502996" target=3D"_blank">hier</a> einen 6. looks OK 7. Send email to a different account with "show body as original html: View is destroyed, Hyperlink shown as separate text behind "hier": "<https://telekomhilft.telekom.de/t5/Frage-stellen/2-vom-alten-Provider.....>" 8. Most surprising: Mail header shows "Content-Type: text/plain;" 9. but other HTML emails I receive on that account look normal, like web pages 10. It seems mail became destroyed when I sent it to web.de and gmail the contents also looked destroyed 11. For an additional test in gmail I created an email, also by copy/paste those three words from the web page, sent it th the same account as in (7). Received mail looks fine. So it seems Seamonkey destroys the HTML contents when I sen. May be I did a mistake with my settings, may be it's a real bug? but I doubt that the problem I obsere is the same reporter saw.
Flags: needinfo?(vgendler)
I think the effect I described in Comment 5 are caused by "Bug 1130843 - Send format recognition does not recognize HTML e-mail"
@Reporter: Any new information?
No response, os I close this one. @Reporter: Please feel free to reopen this Bug if you still can reproduce with a current SeaMonkey version and a current OS and if you can contribute a step by step instruction (containing every key press and every mouse click) how to reproduce the problem reliably.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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