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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by derefr on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:48PM (#27216822)
Sounds like you’re talking about the subset of HTML+CSS used in ePub. Come to think, ebooks and emails have pretty similar “richness” needs.
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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by craig131 on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @11:32PM (#27217065)
That's a great idea, just use the ePub standard. Never made the connection between ebook formatting and email formatting before, nice.
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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by shakna on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:02AM (#27217940)
Most ePub readers are intentionally not compliant with the standard, because the standard allows way too much. Including, for example, arbitrary execution.
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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @11:36PM (#27217094)
> Sounds like you’re talking about the subset of HTML+CSS used in ePub.

EPUB3 supports JS.

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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by derefr on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @11:55PM (#27217202)
EPUB3 is a half-baked standard that nothing actually fully supports. The JavaScript parts especially—most e-readers don’t ever plan on adding JS support, even if they nominally support EPUB3.
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