But when some client or project requires to send a newsletter or simply a nicely designed report via email, HTML is, in most cases, what they want.

I know a better solution would be sending just a link and show everything as a web page, and I always suggest that to clients, but unfortunately not everybody wants to go that way. After all, if all clients and users would listen to web developers we wouldn't see so many people browsing with Internet Explorer.

The idea of standards, even for a medium that not many web developers like, is a good one. It's simply silly having to create as many different versions of one HTML email as clients exist.

Alexis Bellido