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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by notpushkin on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:26AM (#44026974)
It’s actually a bummer: you can’t use a <style> tag because some email clients don’t like them. Instead, you have to inline your styles in every element. the lack of :hover is just a side effect of that I think (although it plays out nicely here).

(While on it, can we also ban loading images from third-party servers?)

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by MrLeap on Monday May 19, 2025 @06:49AM (#44028378)
you sure can if we resolve to make a text editor instead of a web browser!
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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by notpushkin on Monday May 19, 2025 @07:01AM (#44028439)
Hmm, that might not be a bad idea! We could ban CSS altogether: just leave some markup tags, maybe whatever you can do in Markdown + tables. No colors, no small print, no images. (We could even use something like gemtext as the format instead of HTML, but that wouldn’t be backward compatible with clients.)

But I don’t see any email clients with somewhat significant market share going through with this :(

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