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Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by trallnag » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 3:56 PM UTC

rmbyrro wrote: post #5

I have the personal impression that it would be a net positive if all emails were written as text. Ok, in some cases I see why html would make some sense. In those cases, my opinion is: send text and invite the person to view markup content in their browser. The e-mail context is not suitable for markup, styling, and all this stuff.

So plain text, not even links with ?

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by samdung » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 4:03 PM UTC

cheapgeek wrote: post #4

samdung wrote: post #2

Oh! I wasn’t expecting this. I’ll be here a couple of hours to answer any questions.

No malicious intent here but the post says it was submitted by you. What exactly were you "not expecting"?

wasn't expecting to hit the front page so soon given all the attention towards crowdstrike.

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by graemep » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 4:04 PM UTC

trallnag wrote: post #11

rmbyrro wrote: post #5

I have the personal impression that it would be a net positive if all emails were written as text. Ok, in some cases I see why html would make some sense. In those cases, my opinion is: send text and invite the person to view markup content in their browser. The e-mail context is not suitable for markup, styling, and all this stuff.

So plain text, not even links with ?

Yes. Links can be automatically marked up in the client.

The problem is there is no practical way of getting back to plain text, or even to a different type of markup.

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by samdung » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 4:05 PM UTC

gamegod wrote: post #7

Looks awesome. Is there a way to load saved templates?

there's an export HTML functionality. you can use this to save templates once you embed this in your project.

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by samdung » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 4:11 PM UTC

ibdf wrote: post #10

I was writing them email templates 15 years ago... oh... look we are still using tables. How has email markup not evolved?

it has not evolved much. and i believe that's a good thing. this is the reason why emails from 20 years ago look the same even if you open them today. given the short life of everything on the internet, email is a wonderful thing.

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by rspoerri » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 4:13 PM UTC

trallnag wrote: post #11

rmbyrro wrote: post #5

I have the personal impression that it would be a net positive if all emails were written as text. Ok, in some cases I see why html would make some sense. In those cases, my opinion is: send text and invite the person to view markup content in their browser. The e-mail context is not suitable for markup, styling, and all this stuff.

So plain text, not even links with ?

I intentionally disable html on my email programms and block all internet access for my mail program to the internet (except for the smtp, imap hosts of course)

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by rd » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 4:16 PM UTC

How does this compare to something like resend?

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by conradolandia » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 4:18 PM UTC

ibdf wrote: post #10

I was writing them email templates 15 years ago... oh... look we are still using tables. How has email markup not evolved?

Email clients and servers have not evolved

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by Turboblack » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 4:24 PM UTC

This is a very useful thing, I will definitely test it

Re: Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

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Post by NoboruWataya » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 4:34 PM UTC

samdung wrote: post #15

ibdf wrote: post #10

I was writing them email templates 15 years ago... oh... look we are still using tables. How has email markup not evolved?

it has not evolved much. and i believe that's a good thing. this is the reason why emails from 20 years ago look the same even if you open them today. given the short life of everything on the internet, email is a wonderful thing.

Yes, I have no idea why UI practices need to constantly "evolve". As far as I am concerned a lot of UI is getting worse over time so the less evolution the better.