They are usually remote linked content, so your client disables them for privacy reasons. How often do you really click "display images in this message" versus "meh, I got the message and I can spare the rounded corners on this advertisement and instead not send a req back to their server notifying them I've read it".
But I get what you're saying. Without HTML emails we'd all still be looking at those ">" characters for quoting. Hideous. At least now we got dark blue vertical bars. I for one couldn't live without them. That's progress!!
How often do you see images in your emails?
They are usually remote linked content, so your client disables them for privacy reasons. How often do you really click "display images in this message" versus "meh, I got the message and I can spare the rounded corners on this advertisement and instead not send a req back to their server notifying them I've read it".
But I get what you're saying. Without HTML emails we'd all still be looking at those ">" characters for quoting. Hideous. At least now we got dark blue vertical bars. I for one couldn't live without them. That's progress!!