Re:Can I Email?
by breakfastduck on Friday May 14, 2021 @08:21PM
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Can't argue with your final point at all.
However, my thread is more "can we do it differently?" instead of "maybe we shouldn't do it at all"
I agree, HTML isn't right for email.
Some different approach, possibly a markdown variant, with decent style support (basic css like background colours, fonts, like markdown themes in a code editor), why not explore that.
There's no reason emails need to be plain. RTF is a horrible format, markdown is much more prevalent and easy to make a simple UI formatter that obeys the standard for non technical users.
I don’t think that HTML emails are really an improvement: full-fledged HTML engines bring in too many opportunities for exploits and privacy loss. They definitely add capability, but at too high a cost IMHO.
In general, I think that our industry would benefit from asking ‘can we?’ less and instead asking ‘ought we?’ more.