There are some pretty odd quirks in the way WLMail generates and/or
reads HTML. For example, try setting up a fixed-formatted
(space-delimited) set of columns, making sure you use a fixed-width
font. If the transfer-encoding is set to None or QP, the HTML will
be QP encoded. Then, when generating the HTML, WLMail (mshtml.dll?)
counts characters per line and inserts a '=' at the end of each,
depending on the user setting. But each of the delimiting spaces has
been converted to - six columns instead of one. The '=' is
bound to occur in the middle of some of the characters (the
engine doesn't seem to regard ';' as a potential line-break
character), so instead of a nicely formatted table you get rows like
January &nb sp; 31
February   ; 28
You can easily observe this by saving the message you're composing
and then viewing the draft. The workaround is to encode as base64.
As a matter of interest, I have 18 different versions of mshtml.dll
on my XPSP3/IE7 system - none of them the one that WLMail claims to
be using.
--
Noel
"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uVvL4BIuIHA.524@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Windows Live Mail (WLM) lacks the ability that Outlook Express
> (OE) has to view/edit the HTML source in a message that you are
> composing. There is a workaround, but it is nowhere as convenient
> as in OE.
>
> 1 - Start composing the message as normal.
>
> 2 - When you get to the point when you want to edit the HTML, do a
> File, Save As to an EML file. Close the message (X in the upper
> right hand corner).
>
> 3 - Open the saved EML file in Notepad.
>
> 4 - At this point you can edit the HTML code. If you edit the
> text in the HTML portion of the message, WLM will automatically
> update the plain text portion when you send the message.
>
> 5 - Save the EML file from Notepad, then double click to open in
> WLM. You can then send the message.
>
> 6 - The saved EML file can be deleted.
>
> Note: If after opening the saved EML file you make some changes
> via WLM and decide that you need to do make further source
> changes, you will need to save to a different EML file, as the
> current one is locked by WLM and won't let the Save As update it.
>
> --
>
> Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
>
>
>
> "swallown" <tomiberjoyo@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C40B6E5C-4EE9-4E00-9FD5-1AE010FF9150@xxxxxx Quote:
>> How to obtain the tabs or activate the possibility for editing
>> html code in messages like Outlook Express?
>>
>> Thank you
>
>