Re: Fetching short text snippet for mails

Stuart Brandt <[email protected]>
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Is snippet intended to be immutable? A server figuring out how to best 
parse an HTML body part and offer up of the most meaningful snippet for 
a user almost assuredly will result in versioning of the extraction 
algorithm, thereby leading to the potential for a mutable snippet element.

Additionally, a fixed sized snippet seems limiting given the trend of 
using the 'stretch' gesture on mobile devices to expose an increasing 
amount of snippet/message while viewing a message listing.

- Stuart

On 12/5/14 7:25 PM, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
> For a 50,000 foot preview of the message content, I have no issue
> relying on a server to figure out how to parse the multipart/alternative
> message and strip out the HTML tags in order to provide something useful.

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