Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
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Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
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Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
#2This is good! I have searched for this actually.
However this seems to lack the most important thing (for me): the global usage percentage of a particular feature, which is the #1 deciding factor whether to use a HTML/CSS feature or not.
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#3Hope KMail and Protonmail get added as well.
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#4It would be really nice to have a small and simple markup language, say some markdown standard, to be the layouting language for E-Mails. No (external) images, just links, lists, headings, basic formatting.
HTML E-Mails are a security nightmare, even if "only" CSS is "allowed" and JS/iframes/external images are not loaded.
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#5Isn't it time for desktop clients to embed a real rendering engine? The isolation on them has reached a good level.
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#6> This page ranks email clients based on their support among the 58 HTML and CSS features listed on Can I email.
> (Because every test is done manually, some features might not have been tested on every email client.)
I wonder, could they not create a single test email exercising all 58 features? Then one would just have to open the test email in a given client and compare it to a reference rendering. (Kind of like the Acid1/2/3 tests of yore.)
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#7Why use HTML in emails though?
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#8It might be interesting to include "pine" and "mutt" as well, as a baseline of mail clients that do not support HTML out of the box. (At least with mutt you can set it up to automatically render HTML emails via "w3m")
More importantly, though, I convinced all mail clients I use to just show plain text when viewing and writing my emails. Often there are HTML emails in which I do not see all the content, or content at all. For me this is nice because most HTML emails I get are spam, marketing related, or organizational nonsense.
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#9Christ on a bike, the state of Outlook on Windows is absolutely miserable. I knew it by experience when I started preparing HTML signatures for our company, but seeing the list makes me even sadder about the absolute state of incompetency caused by legacy systems in Microsoft. For those uninformed, Outlook on Windows effectively works on a terrible (and terribly old) implementation of HTML that was initially developed for Word from 2001 (or older, can't remember exactly).
The Outlook ecosystem has to die.
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#10Why use HTML in emails though?
Because mere humans like to have images, colors and text formating in emails.