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Gmail will now support CSS media queries
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Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries
#52Personally, I'd love if Gmail would support markdown or retext.
I don't need any of this fancy.
Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries
#53For those who are not familiar in Email's CSS support, Gmail is actually a blocker, not a mover: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
You say that like it is a bad thing.
I'm really pleased that email cannot set a style header and has limited ability to have the email deviate greatly in presentation from other email I receive.
Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries
#54For those who are not familiar in Email's CSS support, Gmail is actually a blocker, not a mover: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
You say that like it is a bad thing. I'm really pleased that email cannot set a style header and has limited ability to have the email deviate greatly in presentation from other email I receive.
Why not block styling on web pages too then? I mean, what makes an email different from a web page, other than that it has been sent to you?
Just playing devil's advocate here.
Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries
#55This is a great thing. One more metric by which to filter out spam. If I am receiving an email from an actual person, it will be plain text, perhaps with 1-2 links or images, and will not contain any CSS.
Well, if you ever end up working with a company for which someone created a responsive email footer, I hope your missing their email is not a big deal.
In that case, the company domain goes on the whitelist, after being noticed on a weekly glance at the spam folder. The existence of CSS headers isn't a catch-all, but is one more sign that the email is mere marketing, rather than an attempt at human communication.
Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, if you ever end up working with a company for which someone created a responsive email footer, I hope your missing their email is not a big deal.
In that case, the company domain goes on the whitelist, after being noticed on a weekly glance at the spam folder. The existence of CSS headers isn't a catch-all, but is one more sign that the email is mere marketing, rather than an attempt at human communication.
You don't imagine that gmail users will be a prime source of CSS-decorated email within 12 months?
Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
In that case, the company domain goes on the whitelist, after being noticed on a weekly glance at the spam folder. The existence of CSS headers isn't a catch-all, but is one more sign that the email is mere marketing, rather than an attempt at human communication.
You don't imagine that gmail users will be a prime source of CSS-decorated email within 12 months?
I don't imagine that, no. My experience is that gmail addresses are primarily personal email addresses, not mass-marketing emails intended to be a full web page embedded into an email viewer.
Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
You say that like it is a bad thing. I'm really pleased that email cannot set a style header and has limited ability to have the email deviate greatly in presentation from other email I receive.
Why not block styling on web pages too then? I mean, what makes an email different from a web page, other than that it has been sent to you? Just playing devil's advocate here.
One is push, the other is pull. I can choose never to go to a URL again, but I can't choose to never receive spam from the same person from a different address and server.
Also, I think many people do that with AdBlock, so it's not unheard of to block styling on webpages of dubious origin.
Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
You say that like it is a bad thing. I'm really pleased that email cannot set a style header and has limited ability to have the email deviate greatly in presentation from other email I receive.
Why not block styling on web pages too then? I mean, what makes an email different from a web page, other than that it has been sent to you? Just playing devil's advocate here.
> what makes an email different from a web page, other than that it has been sent to you?
I think it's to do with perceived ownership of the environment in which the information is consumed.
Your website... feel free to style, brand, make pretty or ugly. You can make the experience consistent within your realm.
My inbox... I get to control my workflows, how I consume things, in which order, etc. I choose to make the experience consistent within my realm.
That holds fairly well as a definition for why I prefer chat clients that grant me the ability to make all messages consistent, and that do not allow the sender to dictate terms. It also holds up with things like Netflix, it's their realm they can knock themselves out on their design.
It does seem to be whether the environment it is presented is "yours" or "mine".
Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know what you're looking for in an email client, but Gmail's future is the Inbox app.
I tried inbox for a while, it tries to be too intelligent and I ended up missing important stuff because of it.
Agreed, I had the same experience. I might be waiting for a password reset or shipping email, or something on a mailing list, and with Inbox it was more of a guessing game.
I've gone back to using standard Gmail but added the Inbox Categories, which I find to be very useful on top of the labels & filters I have in place.