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It 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.
You're basically advocating for text/richtext (aka text/enriched), which was originally proposed explicitly as a replacement for HTML in email. It failed essentially because everyone who didn't want HTML wanted only plain text, and everyone who wanted something like HTML was happy to just use HTML. Factoid of the day: Netscape added support for a tag to text/enriched bodies, and that support remains in every client t…
https://github.com/mozilla/releases-comm-central/blob/master...
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By the same logic you could say that internet explorer was doing good things
No, the logic is: I want styled content on the Web and plain text in my emails.
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No markdown, but we had success with this one: https://mjml.io/ Try out the online examples.
We use https://foundation.zurb.com/emails.html It is essentially rows and columns, but the support has been great across Outlook and gmail, as well as mobile support.
Things feel a little stale.
For example (from this week of my adventures with Foundation for Emails) Google Fonts almost sort of work for email, but there's just no real easy way to tell this framework to use them, or call any web font.
It 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…
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HTML in email helps readability, titles, lists, tables does help the recipient.
Nothing that cannot more elegantly be solved by using MarkDown ... ... or common sense.
It 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…
It 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…
http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/alpine-info/misc/mime.html
But I might be wrong. I thought both pine and mutt would handle html through w3m or something?