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!
HTML in email helps readability, titles, lists, tables does help the recipient.
Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
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Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
#62Isn't it time for desktop clients to embed a real rendering engine? The isolation on them has reached a good level.
KMail uses QtWebEngine, which is effectively Chromium.
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#63I just use premailer[1] to automatically convert the email html I write to outlook compatible html 0.1 gibberish
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#64It 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.
Something like this? http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1896.txt
Email is so fun, every time someone comes with a new idea, someone pulls out an RFC detailing it. Dated 20+ years back.
Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
#65It 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.
But isn't Markdown a sugar on top of HTML? When something does not fit Markdown one is supposed to write inline HTML.
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Have you tried https://zurb.com/ink/index.php ? Seems similar, and a bit older
They are very, very different things. Zurb Email is like Bootstrap/Zurb Foundation, for email. They are common styles that apply to your HTML. MJML, in other hand, is not HTML. You write MJML, instead of HTML, and it compiles to HTML. It's really fantastic.
With ink (well, inky) I write an email using things like "row", "columns", "spacer" etc. and then a process converts those to HTML+CSS, then another inlines the CSS.
It doesn't seem much different to me.
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Something like this? http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1896.txt
Email is so fun, every time someone comes with a new idea, someone pulls out an RFC detailing it. Dated 20+ years back.
It even has a predecessor from 1992, see paragraph 7.1.3 of http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1341.txt .
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That's why we have lightweight markup syntaxes like markdown.
Markdown is a lightweight syntax for writing and generating HTML, like BBCode. It's not an alternative syntax to HTML.
Markdown is designed to be readable without encoding it as HTML though, so is nicely readable on old email clients too.
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Thanks for the RFC link. Yes, basically. I mean, different mime versions of the same content are a possibility to do this transition: Send both plaintext, HTML and markdown, and the receiver could choose to display markdown if he otherwise would display plain text. To be honest, this won't come. Google is pushing AMP into mails, that's exactly the opposite direction.
It’s so stupid. If AMP emai ever became a thing, every single non google email client would just fetch and store the contents of the AMP page the moment an AMP email arrives. So what was the point of it?
Not so sure about that, not downloading anything extra and only showing what is embedded in the email is one of the good things with using an email client. Using AMP email is back to thinking tracking pixels works in emails
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#70Christ 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 develope…
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