how to insert background color or music in eMails in WLM 2011

12-21-2010

ï»¿i know that the use of HTML in eMail messages has unfortunately been
continuously shrunk in the move from outlook express to WLM.

However, is there really no way to change the background color of an eMail
message
or to insert MIDI music in an eMail message in WLM 2011?

greetings

Roland Schweiger

12-21-2010

Composing in Html is still available though WLM no longer supports
background or embedding content(including Midi)...features that are
unlikely to ever return.

--
....winston
msft mvp mail

"Roland Schweiger" wrote in message
news:ieqski$kkf$...

i know that the use of HTML in eMail messages has unfortunately been
continuously shrunk in the move from outlook express to WLM.

However, is there really no way to change the background color of an eMail
message
or to insert MIDI music in an eMail message in WLM 2011?

greetings

Roland Schweiger

12-22-2010

ï»¿"...winston"
>Composing in Html is still available though WLM no longer supports
>background or embedding content(including Midi)...features that are
>unlikely to ever return.

a matter of fact i still do not understand.
Where is the "danger" of MIDI music or background images?
And the feature to edit HTML tags directly was long removed anyway ...

So in long term i suppose it means that if one really wants fully featured
HTML in eMails,
he would have to compose that HTML "page" in some editor and send it as
attatchment,
waiting for the recipient of the eMail to click on this attatchment which
will then open in the
web browser?
Is that wat is wanted in long term ... ?

I only occasionally used background in eMails but now around x-mas i noticed
the problem
:-)
:-)

greetings ... and att the best for x-mas and 2011!

from

Roland

12-23-2010

ï»¿How to insert background color in an eMail message in WLM 2011:

Save your message in Drafts folder and then save it as file *.eml (F12).
Open it with Notepad and replace the line <BODY dir=3Dltr> by the line
<BODY dir=3Dltr bgColor=3D#XXXXXX>, where XXXXXX is the Hex color
as in http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_co...asp?hex=C0C0C0.
Open it , move to Drafts folder and send.

"Roland Schweiger" wrote in message
news:ieqski$kkf$...

i know that the use of HTML in eMail messages has unfortunately been
continuously shrunk in the move from outlook express to WLM.

However, is there really no way to change the background color of an eMail
message
or to insert MIDI music in an eMail message in WLM 2011?

greetings

Roland Schweiger

12-23-2010

ï»¿"Live" schrieb im Newsbeitrag

>Save your message in Drafts folder and then save it as file *.eml (F12).
>Open it with Notepad and replace the line <BODY dir=3Dltr> by the line
><BODY dir=3Dltr bgColor=3D#XXXXXX>, where XXXXXX is the Hex color
>as in http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_co...asp?hex=C0C0C0.
>Open it , move to Drafts folder and send.

Thanks. I did remember that colors in HTML are definet by RGB as each color
of 8bit (so HEX FFFFFF would be complete white and HEX 000000 complete
black)
and i remember in the days of outlookExpress, quickly changing to the HTML
view/edit, if i wanted some out of order color
bud i did not actually think of saving an .eml file, changing it and
re-opening it. tnx again.

Still wondering though why the hell MS has dropped all these simple
features?
All in all i greatly enjoy WLM 2011 and its integration into windowsLive,
calender sync and so on,
but for what sake did they remove all these edit features? Where is the
danger of changing a color?

greetings, and mary christmas and all the best for 2011 to everyone!

Roland Schweiger

12-23-2010

ï»¿"Live"
>Open it with Notepad and replace the line <BODY dir=3Dltr> by the line
><BODY dir=3Dltr bgColor=3D#XXXXXX>, where XXXXXX is the Hex color
>as in http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_co...asp?hex=C0C0C0.
>Open it , move to Drafts folder and send.

Thanks again and here is some more information.

First one has to change the text transfer encoding from for example base64
to NONE because otherwise editing with notepad is not possible.

---> options ---> eMail ---> send ---> text encoding ...

And then the line seems to read

<BODY dir=3Dltr bgColor=3D"#82C2F0">

In this case it will create some blue background.

i don't know why the "#AABBCC" why the " and the # symbol but i copied it
from some old email where bgColor worked.

greetings to all

Roland Schweiger

12-24-2010

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:12:16 +0100, Roland Schweiger wrote:

> So in long term i suppose it means that if one really wants fully featured
> HTML in eMails,
> he would have to compose that HTML "page" in some editor and send it as
> attatchment,
> waiting for the recipient of the eMail to click on this attatchment which
> will then open in the
> web browser?

Actually, for email, one should probably compose a page on a web server, and
send a link. I mostly use email clients which don't render something the
clients calls, "lazy HTML".

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

12-24-2010

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:52:35 +0100, Roland Schweiger wrote:

> Still wondering though why the hell MS has dropped all these simple
> features?
> All in all i greatly enjoy WLM 2011 and its integration into windowsLive,
> calender sync and so on,
> but for what sake did they remove all these edit features? Where is the
> danger of changing a color?

The only "danger", nearly as I can tell, is when a user of an MS email
client, with all those fancy HTML "bells and whistles", starts bugging MS
support because his email doesn't display properly in his friends' more
limited email clients. Rather than wasting support staff time trying to
explain to such users that such lack of rendering is not a problem that MS
can fix, it is probably easier not to create the problem in the first place.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

12-25-2010

"N. Miller" wrote in message news:1u2bpfc6ftet6$....

The only "danger", nearly as I can tell, is when a user of an MS email
client, with all those fancy HTML "bells and whistles", starts bugging MS
support because his email doesn't display properly in his friends' more
limited email clients. Rather than wasting support staff time trying to
explain to such users that such lack of rendering is not a problem that MS
can fix, it is probably easier not to create the problem in the first
place.

>>

--
....winston
msft mvp mail

12-25-2010

?>The only "danger", nearly as I can tell, is when a user of an MS email
>client, with all those fancy HTML "bells and whistles", starts bugging MS
>support because his email doesn't display properly in his friends' more
>limited email clients. Rather than wasting support staff time trying to
>explain to such users that such lack of rendering is not a problem that MS
>can fix, it is probably easier not to create the problem in the first
>place.

Actually i never thought that there really are users who bang on MS door
if HTML rendering does not work on recipients side.
But if there really have been such users,
then i can understand MS that they simply dropped most of these features.
Still, i enjoyed the HTML editing tool,
and whenever i used HTMS in my mails, i definately knew *which* eMail client
the recipient used
so i knew how the mail would display on the recievers side ...

greetings

Roland Schweiger

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