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> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war. I am still fighting, and the war is not over.
by kome 10y ago
> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war.
I am still fighting, and the war is not over.
- guyzmo 10y agoSo am I... at some point for colleagues that were telling me that my mail looked bad because text (and they weren't using fixed width font), I was sending them text converted to html by a script, so it is contained in a <pre></pre> :->
- function_seven 10y agoHaha, imposing your plain text will on the HTMLers. I love it.
- qw 10y agoThe main problem In the business world is Outlook. For some reason they decided to ignore line breaks in plain text by default, which makes plain text a broken mess
- Teckla 10y agoThe main problem In the business world is Outlook. For some reason they decided to ignore line breaks in plain text by default, which makes plain text a broken mess There's an option in Outlook to turn that "feature" off, but of course, nobody does. It's a horrible, terrible default feature of Outlook.
- ams6110 10y agoIt's also their problem. They send me HTML and I have to deal with that. I send them plain text, so they can do likewise.
- MichaelGG 10y agoThat reason probably is good. Some mail clients wrap at 78 chars. Result is that the text doesn't flow. Larger window and text doesn't fill, smaller and you get staggered lines. For most Outlook users, it makes sense to convert this into something more readable. I think there is an option to change its behaviour.
- berntb 10y agoGood luck, "forest brother". Where should I leave stashes with food and ammo? :-) :-(
- bitwize 10y agoYou're pretty much the equivalent of the Japanese soldier who got stranded in the Philippines and kept fighting WWII until the 1970s. HTML mail won. If you work in an office they will use either Exchange or Google Apps; Exchange's default configuration is a fuck you to text-based mail clients. <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><font size=2 face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Hope you like <i></i><i>all</i> your email looking like this, because the only response you’ll get from your sysadmin should you decide to complain is a snippy remark along the lines of “try using an email client from this century”. Don’t worry, with enough practice you won’t even see the code — just blonde, brunette, redhead₀ <font size=2 face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Wingdings">J</span></font></span></font></p> The war is over, friend. Come on home.
- Retric 10y agoYou can just pipe your email through something that removes HTML. Outlook seems to just ignore line breaks by default. But, there is probably a mime type to get around that.
- jeremysmyth 10y agoHTML ignores line breaks. If you're using plain text, the format=flowed header is what ignores line breaks. Not all clients support it.
- bitwize 10y agoIt's not just Outlook. Exchange adds this mush to emails which were sent in plain text.
- Styx- 10y agoThanks for the laugh, that was well done.
- tremendo 10y agoPerhaps, but why give up if you're not missing any benefit? I still pretty much can rely on something not being readable as plain text also not being worth my time.
- Freak_NL 10y agoA lot of mail clients actually send both HTML and text (as they should), so if you configure your mail client to prefer text, almost all incoming mail will be presented to you as text. Now configure it to only send out plain text, and you are no longer part of the problem. :)