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Re: Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

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Post by wrycoder »

throw0101c wrote: post #67
StableAlkyne wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a completely valid opinion, and I prefer plaintext as well But at this point, it's pretty clear that most non-technical people prefer emails with fancy text and graphics. Personally, I'm just glad that email is a flexible enough medium to allow that. It's better than the alternative, where people moved to some closed, proprietary protocol behind like 20 patents that allows the same thing. Is there any other co…

> But at this point, it's pretty clear that most non-technical people prefer emails with fancy text and graphics. And what percentage of e-mails from people / human beings have those things? Certainly marketing e-mails have fancy formats, but I've rarely seen any person at a companies I've worked at use any kind of formatting: generally most folks hit reply and start typing with whatever the default is. Hardly any it…

My wife has a fastmail account, but she uses her iMail client, so she can send inline photos with her email. Even FM can’t do that yet.

Re: Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

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Post by dzhiurgis »

StableAlkyne wrote: post #42
candiddevmike wrote: post #12

IMO, HTML was the worst thing that ever happened to email. Plain text content is the best content.

That's a completely valid opinion, and I prefer plaintext as well But at this point, it's pretty clear that most non-technical people prefer emails with fancy text and graphics. Personally, I'm just glad that email is a flexible enough medium to allow that. It's better than the alternative, where people moved to some closed, proprietary protocol behind like 20 patents that allows the same thing. Is there any other co…

My guess SMS (and similar) (by volume) are more frequent than email.

Anecdotally, I only get 2-3 actual human emails per _year_. Rest is transactional spam.

Re: Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

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Post by dylan604 »

jolmg wrote: post #80
dylan604 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most popular only because it was included with the OS and most IT departments did not allow use of other browsers. Just because it was the most installed does not make it the most popular. There was an old saying, "Internet Explorer: the most used browser to download another browser."

> Just because it was the most installed does not make it the most popular. It kind of does: > popular - prevailing among the people generally --- https://www.dictionary.com/browse/popular I didn't mean to say most preferred.

It's not a like it's a vote. Most people didn't choose it. They had it because their corp uses Windows, and Windows came with IE, and IT did not allow other browsers.

Re: Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

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Post by brongondwana »

wrycoder wrote: post #81
throw0101c wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But at this point, it's pretty clear that most non-technical people prefer emails with fancy text and graphics. And what percentage of e-mails from people / human beings have those things? Certainly marketing e-mails have fancy formats, but I've rarely seen any person at a companies I've worked at use any kind of formatting: generally most folks hit reply and start typing with whatever the default is. Hardly any it…

My wife has a fastmail account, but she uses her iMail client, so she can send inline photos with her email. Even FM can’t do that yet.

Huh? You can paste if you have an image in your buffer, or drag-drop image files into an email in the Fastmail composer. I paste images into emails from screenshots almost every day.

(I'll take this report as a "we need to make it clearer you can do this!")

Re: Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

#88

Post by Semaphor »

throw0101c wrote: post #67
StableAlkyne wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a completely valid opinion, and I prefer plaintext as well But at this point, it's pretty clear that most non-technical people prefer emails with fancy text and graphics. Personally, I'm just glad that email is a flexible enough medium to allow that. It's better than the alternative, where people moved to some closed, proprietary protocol behind like 20 patents that allows the same thing. Is there any other co…

> But at this point, it's pretty clear that most non-technical people prefer emails with fancy text and graphics. And what percentage of e-mails from people / human beings have those things? Certainly marketing e-mails have fancy formats, but I've rarely seen any person at a companies I've worked at use any kind of formatting: generally most folks hit reply and start typing with whatever the default is. Hardly any it…

If plain text would support inline-images, I’d probably be okay with it. But it doesn’t, so I’m not.

I also generally prefer structured formatting to plain text.

Re: Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

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Post by jordanreger »

candiddevmike wrote: post #12

IMO, HTML was the worst thing that ever happened to email. Plain text content is the best content.

Pretty much the only credit I'll give to Amazon is that they give the option to get plaintext emails. Doesn't mask the larger problems, but still a nice thing I wish was the norm.

Re: Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

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Post by legitster »

candiddevmike wrote: post #12

IMO, HTML was the worst thing that ever happened to email. Plain text content is the best content.

> Plain text content is the best content.

Hard disagree. Things like bolding text, adding pictures, changing colors, etc are very important for the emails I send. So some amount of HTML is important to me.

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