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> What I would really like is to end up in a situation where email clients all support text/markdown. I don't understand; markdown is text. If you send markdow
by chriswarbo 10y ago
> What I would really like is to end up in a situation where email clients all support text/markdown.
I don't understand; markdown is text. If you send markdown emails right now, what's the problem?
Admittedly I might be biased, since I read mail as plain text in Emacs, but surely plain text emails will display in all mail clients?
- dTal 10y agoPresumably, a Markdown-enabled email client would display a pretty-printed version of an email it thinks is in Markdown. The output, not the input. Markdown is no more text than HTML is. Which is to say, it is, but it also has more structure you can teach software to interpret intelligently. The only difference is that Markdown is 1) more human readable and 2) less standardised. I think reifying our social conventions for conveying formatting over plaintext so that software can understand it is an excellent initiative.
- Freak_NL 10y ago> If you send markdown emails right now, what's the problem? If you structure plain text emails with MarkDown nothing is wrong per se, but if clients can also highlight (in a text editor like plain text view) or format (in a HTML like view), than there is significant added value for a lot of users, without the downsides of HTML email.