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That issue basically forced me to switch from plain-text to html emails, and thence to the slippery slope of using italics and the OCD of syntax highlighting my

• hollerith 10y ago
  I dread the slow insinuation of "the web" into email. Specifically, the need to use a rendering engine like Blink or Gecko to read an email. Is there anything I can do to tempt you to switch back to plain-text emails?
  • akkartik 10y ago
    In my defense, I still eschew html as far as possible. Even when I use html the messages are multipart, and the text versions usually are complete. I do this thing when I reply where I open the gmail menu, switch to plain text and then switch back to html. This has the effect of stripping out all styling from the message I am replying to, replacing html block quotes with conventional '>'s, and so on. That makes it easier for me to quote passages and so on. I think of it as 99%[1] text/html with format=flowed, and if gmail ever added format=flowed to text mode[2] I'd switch back in a heartbeat. [1] The remaining 1% of the time I'm composing something long enough that it has more in common with publishing than 1-1 communication. [2] I wouldn't hold my breath: http://productforums.google.com/d/topic/gmail/Z42NibAOzjc/discussion http://productforums.google.com/d/topic/gmail/Z42NibAOzjc/di.... More likely I'll stop using gmail one of these years..