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I'm always annoyed by Outlook's HTML, I remember when it set Calibri as font and the fall back was "sans-serif" which would not really work. It really made me
by tehabe 7y ago
I'm always annoyed by Outlook's HTML, I remember when it set Calibri as font and the fall back was "sans-serif" which would not really work.
It really made me wish that HTML in emails would vanish, just vanish and never come back again. Sadly this won't happening.
- jjcm 7y agoI'd be down with them either vanishing, or at the very least being compliant with a standard html5 spec. The in between state they're in now is the worst of both worlds.
- gnud 7y agoWhich HTML 5 spec is that exactly? HTML 5 is a "living standard", which is a horrible idea for documents that might be archived for 10 years, like email. Note, I'm not condoning the status quo, but let's think about what we actually want here.
- egeozcan 7y agoA proper browser can display all HTML documents crated like, ever, if you can live with some imperfections that are there to deal with improper browsers in the first place. I mean, I get your point, and it makes sense, and for a similar reason we didn't get WebSQL. But I think HTML is special in this regard. Everyone just accepted the complexity of dealing with all sorts of documents.
- zeven7 7y agoHTML 5 maintains backwards compatibility. HTML from 20 years ago still works today.
- tehabe 7y agoI would be happy if there was a subset of HTML for email. Look at the HTML Gmail produces, which is essentially just <div> or <p> in the default mode and uses <span> for changes of formating and <blockquote> for replies. This would work for propably 90 to 99% of all hand written emails in Outlook or any other email client.