Closed Bug 674333 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

HTML Emails on AMO

Categories

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Product:
addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
Component:
Public Pages
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: gkoberger, Assigned: gkoberger)

Details

(Whiteboard: [follow your heart])

I want to start sending HTML emails. Not full layouts with extensive use of CSS and images -- just subtle changes, like using link tags. Fligtar/Wil, yay or nay? Cons: - They're harder to do. Significantly harder. - jbalogh doesn't like HTML emails Pros: - They look much more professional. - We can gray out the footer a bit and make it smaller. - Links don't have to be long URLs; they can be text! - Currently, the biggest, bluest thing in the emails is the unsubscribe link. With HTML, we can downplay the importance of the unsubscribe link.
I disable html emails in clients where I can (and in gmail emails with images are full of holes by default). That said, plenty of places use them so I'll assume there is a positive reaction from normal people. No objections from me, except that if we want to use HTML we need additional time to write the code for it and test it.
Sure, as long as we don't use images.
Wil, what milestone should this go in?
Well, Future I suppose. Do you have emails you want to send to people right now? :) If you want to convert our current emails that's a possibility but lower priority than all the impala/app store stuff. Email conversions split themselves up into smaller projects nicely though and we could fit them in here and there.
I suppose my "Greg's Add-on of the Week!" ezine can wait until later. Really, my big problem is the unsubscribe links. I want to give the user the option to unsubscribe from either the current topic (say, "my add-on was upgraded successfully") or all topics at once, and having two gigantic links is unwieldy and confusing. It would be nice to use an <a> when possible.
Give us a patch for one of the emails. Let's see what it looks like
Whiteboard: [follow your heart]
Can we please send both text and html mime types so clients can just use the plain text one if desired.
Andy: naturally :)
I still think this is a good idea, however I'll refile if we ever have a pressing need for it.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: addons.mozilla.org → addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
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