I was just going to say I don't see any practical use-case, but you outlined one I didn't think of. One problem I foresee is the cross-email compatibility problems. It's a magnitude worse than browsers. This problem is obviously extenuated by the fact that misalignment could produce unrecognizable images. Assuming the technical side is rock solid, I could see people using this for logos in their email signatures along with social icons. I still don't see many people paying for this, much less understanding it. I also hate seeing company logos and facebook icons in email signatures since I just think it's useless and annoying.
Hey,<p>This is pretty damned useful! I'm the Product Manager of PostageApp (<a href="http://www.postageapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.postageapp.com</a>), we deal with outbound transactional email, and I have to say, this is probably a godsend for our clients.<p>The only problem I can see is the significant size increase in emails - transactional emails need to get to the recipient as soon as possible. Saving the Firefox icon as HTML/CSS was about 647KB in TextEdit as a plain text file!<p>That would be my only reservation for using it.<p>REALLY love the idea though. Great work!
I made this because I needed to include a few small images into emails I'm sending for a separate project. I didn't want to annoy the user with the "allow images from this sender" message, so I needed them to be pure html/css. I couldn't find a tool that would make the conversion with inline css, so I made one myself.<p>It can't handle large images because the css is inline, but that's the trade-off for being able to email them.<p>Can you think of anyone who would pay for this? Is there a feature I could add that would make this worth paying for?
One cool thing is that a converted transparent PNG will display properly in IE 6, even though the original doesn't:<p><a href="http://imgur.com/XA6OE" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/XA6OE</a>