Netscape/Outlook Express smilies

I've previously posted in the Outlook forum but am wondering if this is a Netscape issue.

I use Netscape 7.2 and my friend uses Outlook Express V6. When I add a smilie in my message to him it is received by him as keyboard characters. He can NOT view the icon. I've tested my messages by sending it to myself and it appears just the way I sent it.

I checked the two suggestions offered in the other forum but those were not the problem.

Is there perhaps an issue between Outlook Express and Netscape messenger?

 

I have never seen that having a certain type of font or stationary, or smilies to sending does any good to the receiver. It is a way to make the sender feel good.
I did a test sending, using HTML, a very simple e-mail from Thunderbird to OE. The accounts very set up in both mail clients. I had a colored background, and two smilies. The message came with no icons, different background, and fonts.
I check my settings in OE, and it was obvious why the fonts were different, not the rest. so, a real test would be to send to yourself from NS to OE, on your computer. It works both ways. What you see, is not what you get.

 

vegaspat--I think I already posted to a similar question of yours earlier.
I assume you are typing a keyboard smilie into a Netscape email. Like <=)
I cannot comment about Netscape, but if you type a keyboard smilie into an Outlook Express email, it will be received as a keyboard smilie by the recipient. OE does not "translate" keyboard smilies to images. So I would not expect it to translate a keyboard smilie from a Netscape email, either.
To send an image smilie from OE, you have to have the image file downloaded to your hard drive and then you can click Insert|Picture/Browse to insert the image into the email (wherever you have clicked the mouse cursor). Assuming that your friend has the proper OE settings to receive images in email, your friend should see the image smilie in the OE email.

 

I think I am confusing myself and everyone else.

I use Netscape Messenger which has a drop down menu when composing a message consisting of several smilies.

Sometimes instead of typing <G> for a grin I like to insert a smilie

It appears as an icon in Messenger but when my friend receives it in OE all he gets is the or whatever.

Now, are you really confused?

Sorry.

 

vegaspat--I think I understand clearly.
See my post in your other thread.
http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=50441
OE does not translate keyboard smilies into images. OE does not offer any smilies to use with emails. You have to insert the image into an OE email from a file on your harddrive.

 

Neither welshjim nor I are confused. And, in addition, I did a test sendin g smilies from Thunderbird (same as Netscape) to Outlook Express, proving the point that what you see in Netscape does not, necessarily, work in an unrelated program. It is the way the programs work. I suppose that you could inset a smile as an image (if you have it on your hard drive), in either Netscape or OE.