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Seems over-engineered. Why not the following simple setup - - user receives email with a link (text or image) that points to some AMP page - user clicks on th

Seems over-engineered. Why not the following simple setup - - user receives email with a link (text or image) that points to some AMP page - user clicks on the link Gmail: - renders the AMP page in-place, replacing email content Non-gmail clients: - keep whatever "link click" behavior they currently have This does not render interactive content in email automatically and requires a click, but that click is important because it - signals the user's desire to interact with the content - follows current email security expectations, e.g. does not load third party content (other than images) just by viewing the email

ClintEhrlich 9y ago
This was exactly what occurred to me. I haven't read the spec, but I presume they want to display AMP content pre-click. As you pointed out, that violates user's expectations about what security vulnerabilities they are initiating when they open an email. Indeed, even lay users may sense that it just feels "wrong" for an email to act dynamically without anything being clicked.
ocdtrekkie 9y ago
Indeed. I can definitely see a reason one might want a dynamic experience in an email. I'd love to interact with some notifications without leaving my inbox. But that'd be select apps I want to work with, not something my email client should assume I want. Every marketing email I get shouldn't be an interactive page by any means. I direct a lot of things to email like social notifications just so everything comes to one place. I end up doing a lot of bounces off to various sites to "respond" with a Like, +1, Retweet, etc. But like, an interactive email should be a whitelisted opt-in behavior. "Hey, I want my Twitter notifs to be interactive so I can reply and retweet without leaving my email, so let me enable the Twitter app in my email client."

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Seems over-engineered. Why not the following simple setup - - user receives email with a link (text or image) that points to some AMP page - user clicks on th

by amthewiz 9y ago

ClintEhrlich 9y ago
This was exactly what occurred to me. I haven't read the spec, but I presume they want to display AMP content pre-click. As you pointed out, that violates user's expectations about what security vulnerabilities they are initiating when they open an email. Indeed, even lay users may sense that it just feels "wrong" for an email to act dynamically without anything being clicked.
ocdtrekkie 9y ago
Indeed. I can definitely see a reason one might want a dynamic experience in an email. I'd love to interact with some notifications without leaving my inbox. But that'd be select apps I want to work with, not something my email client should assume I want. Every marketing email I get shouldn't be an interactive page by any means. I direct a lot of things to email like social notifications just so everything comes to one place. I end up doing a lot of bounces off to various sites to "respond" with a Like, +1, Retweet, etc. But like, an interactive email should be a whitelisted opt-in behavior. "Hey, I want my Twitter notifs to be interactive so I can reply and retweet without leaving my email, so let me enable the Twitter app in my email client."