Gmail, We Need to Talk

Re:Gmail, We Need to Talk by Karunamon on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @06:38PM (#10543548)

If we're just displaying tables rather than interacting with them, that problem is solved.

    +----------------------------------+---------+------------------------+
    |               Col1               |  Col2   |          Col3          |
    +----------------------------------+---------+------------------------+
    | Value 1                          | Value 2 | 123                    |
    | Separate                         | cols    | with a tab or 4 spaces |
    | This is a row with only one cell |         |                        |
    +----------------------------------+---------+------------------------+

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Re:Gmail, We Need to Talk by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @07:38PM (#10543873)

This can't be reflowed to larger or smaller screen sizes.

It also doesn't necessarily work well for non-European languages.

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Re:Gmail, We Need to Talk by eggnet on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @06:50PM (#10543602)

That only works if you can guarantee monospaced font rendering on the client.

It also looks ugly.

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Re:Gmail, We Need to Talk by dredmorbius on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @12:29AM (#10544980)

You cannot guarantee squat. Which is pretty much the gist of TFA, within a single vendor's various client interfaces to its own unified email system.

However, as I put on my True Scotsman hat and kilt, any true email client will present monospaced fonts, therefor those which fail to do so aren't real email tools.

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