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image conversion for email
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How HN took it
2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for transactional email clients
From 1 comment
Hey, This is pretty damned useful! I'm the Product Manager of PostageApp (http://www.postageapp.com), we deal with outbound transactional email, and I have to say, this is…
JonLim on HN
Converted transparent PNGs display in IE 6
From 1 comment
One cool thing is that a converted transparent PNG will display properly in IE 6, even though the original doesn't: http://imgur.com/XA6OE
dwwoelfel on HN
Objections
Output size is large, a concern for transactional email
From 1 comment
Hey, This is pretty damned useful! I'm the Product Manager of PostageApp (http://www.postageapp.com), we deal with outbound transactional email, and I have to say, this is…
JonLim on HN
Cannot handle large images because CSS is inline
From 1 comment
I made this because I needed to include a few small images into emails I'm sending for a separate project. I didn't want to annoy the user with the "allow images from this…
dwwoelfel on HN
Hard to monetize; newsletter publishers rely on external images for tracking
From 2 comments
REALLY love the idea though. Great work! Thanks! That's really nice to read. The only problem I can see is the significant size increase in emails One of the big contributors to…
dwwoelfel on HNdo you have a github repo I can watch? https://github.com/dwwoelfel My github repo is pretty barren. I probably won't put any updates there. However, I have your email from your…
dwwoelfel on HN
Cross-email-client compatibility problems
From 1 comment
I was just going to say I don't see any practical use-case, but you outlined one I didn't think of. One problem I foresee is the cross-email compatibility problems. It's a…
bdclimber14 on HN
Requests
Reduce output size
From 1 comment
If you could make the output size much more manageable, and have it actually be usable for larger images, I think newsletter publishers would love the hell out of this. The only…
JonLim on HN
Questions
Why use CSS rather than data: URLs?
From 1 comment
Is there a reason you need to involve css here? what's wrong with just embedding a data: url inside the html?
beagle3 on HN
Who would pay for this?
From 1 comment
I made this because I needed to include a few small images into emails I'm sending for a separate project. I didn't want to annoy the user with the "allow images from this…
dwwoelfel on HN
Alternatives named
Embedding data: URL images directly in HTML
From 2 comments
Is there a reason you need to involve css here? what's wrong with just embedding a data: url inside the html?
beagle3 on HNEmail clients avoiding going out to fetch external images, because that may be used to track user reading (when the image has been fetched, you know that the email was displayed…
beagle3 on HN