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You've never received data that needed to be displayed as a table? If plain text email was the end-all, then instant messenger and SMS would have killed email
by brwnll 11y ago
You've never received data that needed to be displayed as a table?
If plain text email was the end-all, then instant messenger and SMS would have killed email a long time ago.
- Karunamon 11y agoIf we're just displaying tables rather than interacting with them, that problem is solved. +----------------------------------+---------+------------------------+ | Col1 | Col2 | Col3 | +----------------------------------+---------+------------------------+ | Value 1 | Value 2 | 123 | | Separate | cols | with a tab or 4 spaces | | This is a row with only one cell | | | +----------------------------------+---------+------------------------+
- eggnet 11y agoThat only works if you can guarantee monospaced font rendering on the client. It also looks ugly.
- dredmorbius 11y agoYou cannot guarantee squat. Which is pretty much the gist of TFA, within a single vendor's various client interfaces to its own unified email system. However, as I put on my True Scotsman hat and kilt, any true email client will present monospaced fonts, therefor those which fail to do so aren't real email tools.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoThis can't be reflowed to larger or smaller screen sizes. It also doesn't necessarily work well for non-European languages.
- J_Darnley 11y agoIn the old days instant messenger didn't work if the other party was offline, it didn't usually support more than 1 recipient, and it was just stuck in proprietary programs as it is these days. SMS is too short.
- pessimizer 11y agoData that couldn't be in an attached spreadsheet? Never.
- LeoPanthera 11y ago> You've never received data that needed to be displayed as a table? Actually not that often. If the formatting is critical to the email, don't write it in an email. Send me a PDF.