Gmail will now support CSS media queries

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Post by synotic » Sun, Sep 18, 2016, 7:19 PM UTC

Gmail will now support CSS media queries
googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com

Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries

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Post by ykler » Sun, Sep 18, 2016, 8:28 PM UTC

Does anyone know why it took them so long to do this?

Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries

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Post by inthewoods » Sun, Sep 18, 2016, 8:48 PM UTC

I would just love to see an update to the Gmail app on iOS - very far behind Outlook imho.

Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries

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Post by jazoom » Sun, Sep 18, 2016, 9:01 PM UTC

ykler wrote: post #2

Does anyone know why it took them so long to do this?

I'm going to guess they didn't think it would affect their bottom line too much. This was never a priority for Google.

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Post by agildehaus » Sun, Sep 18, 2016, 9:13 PM UTC

inthewoods wrote: post #3

I would just love to see an update to the Gmail app on iOS - very far behind Outlook imho.

I don't know what you're looking for in an email client, but Gmail's future is the Inbox app.

Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries

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Post by simcop2387 » Sun, Sep 18, 2016, 9:17 PM UTC

ykler wrote: post #2

Does anyone know why it took them so long to do this?

I'd bet part of it was making sure that it wouldn't leak information. They've spent a good deal of time on that in the past few years (images in email are fetched by google, rather than your browser). If done incorrectly it could be used to help fingerprint the email client in some way (screen size, which queries are listened to, etc.) which could enable another email to be sent that attacks a vulnerable device (think stagefright like media attack).

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Sun, Sep 18, 2016, 9:18 PM UTC

This is mostly a distraction, but I still wish text/enriched had won instead of HTML email: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_text

If only because it's simpler, so it might have been more fully and consistently supported (and it's not a security nightmare).

Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries

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Post by cpmsmith » Sun, Sep 18, 2016, 9:21 PM UTC

ykler wrote: post #2

Does anyone know why it took them so long to do this?

They've historically been very restrictive about what they do and don't allow in emails—iirc, they even stripped CSS blocks entirely until recently. Even now they only accept a specific list of properties, selectors, and queries.[1] My impression is it's broadly in the name of security: if you allow arbitrary content inside a Google webpage, it's easy to imagine phishing running amok.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/gmail/design/css

Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries

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Post by dang » Sun, Sep 18, 2016, 9:22 PM UTC

Url changed from https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/09/better-emails-tailored-..., which points to this, which is more specific.

Re: Gmail will now support CSS media queries

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Post by colmvp » Sun, Sep 18, 2016, 9:24 PM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #7

This is mostly a distraction, but I still wish text/enriched had won instead of HTML email: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_text If only because it's simpler, so it might have been more fully and consistently supported (and it's not a security nightmare).

Regarding the example in the Wiki page: Is it possible to use hex colors codes or rgb color codes? The example uses color name.