Last modified: 2014-02-09 04:28:38 UTC
The 'talk' icon in Echo talk-page notification emails is loaded via HTTP: <img src=3D"http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.22wmf13/extensio= ns/Echo/modules/icons/Talk.png" alt=3D"" height=3D"30" width=3D"30"></td> (note the mime encoding in the above source, sorry) Because the image is loaded remotely, many mail readers (including Gmail) won't show it by default, and it'll trigger a prompt to display remote images which must be clicked on before you can see the icon. I would recommend embedding the icons as data URIs if possible, so they don't have to be loaded remotely. (Hopefully this isn't a compat issue...)
Thanks Brion, that's a good idea, but it looks like Gmail and Hotmail do not support data uri, it shows the text 'inline image' instead of an image
Dangit! Is there an alternate way to bundle images with the email, or shall I just close this out as WONTFIX?
We could include the images as attachment, the drawback is that some clients list all of the attached files inside the email, this would give user a bad UI experience. I will see if there is any other alternatives.
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/238
