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Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email

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post #28

I'm all over for using cutting edge CSS solutions but when it comes to HTML email, I'm just: Hello ... ... Thanks! and it's done :)

How about this? Hello ... ... Thanks!

I take the hybrid approach:

    Hello
...
...
Thanks!

Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email

#202

I just use premailer[1] to automatically convert the email html I write to outlook compatible html 0.1 gibberish [1]: https://github.com/peterbe/premailer

I'm starting to run into the emails themselves just being too darn large (over 1mb). There's no gzip with email.

Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email

#203

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Nothing that cannot more elegantly be solved by using MarkDown ... ... or common sense.

Or you could say at a plaintext email first paragraph: You have to use your own fun/gun for this, and just type in plain text.

... which is perfectly ok, because MarkDown nicely degrades to plain text.

Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email

#204
post #71
post #68

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Markdown is designed to be readable without encoding it as HTML though, so is nicely readable on old email clients too.

Sure, but then it's just plain text, and plain text could be perfectly legible before Markdown came along. The only tangible benefit Markdown provides is letting people write HTML who don't like the aesthetics of HTML tags.

The idea is that it gives a standard for semantic markup that can be read as plain text. Lists, highlighted text, block quotes, etc. that is all plain text but easily parsed by humans.

Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email

#205

No, you should not use any of these. You should only use plain text. https://useplaintext.email

Just wondering, what's your opinion on the flowed format? I like it when the recipient uses a smaller screen geometry (phones can be <80 col). And sadly, that page doesn't track this feature...

Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email

#206

No, you should not use any of these. You should only use plain text. https://useplaintext.email

Just wondering, what's your opinion on the flowed format? I like it when the recipient uses a smaller screen geometry (phones can be <80 col). And sadly, that page doesn't track this feature...

I've yet to use any software which supports flowed, as a sender or recipient. As a recipient I appreciate when flowed is done right and properly hardwraps lines as a fallback. Seems like a decent compromise.
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