Esteemed Monks,

It as but moments after I sent my last question that somebody raised the spectre of HTML emails. Situation is this, I have a contact management product (custom job for a client) which is rather nice and is all done in Perl/Tk packaged with PerlApp (from ActiveState) and uses MySQL. We want to embed an email client package into it and I have written all the basics using Net::SMTP and Net::Pop3. The idea is to have an email system that keys the email to an individuals records - rather than the amorphous mess of Outlook or Eudora.

Now I have been asked if it is possible to render HTML. I gather this arises because even Outlook and Eudora use HTML mark-up to do 'styled' text. I think that even Eudora doesn;t do its own HTML rendering, it uses the browsers rendering engine. Is it possible to do this within a Perl Application? Preferably one using Tk?

Any help appreciated!

jdtoronto

In reply to Perl/Tk application rendering HTML? by jdtoronto

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