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You can't really call it HTML if it's so wildly nonstandard. Personally, I think we need "Markdown Email". It looks great in plain text, and something like an
by Slackwise 15y ago
You can't really call it HTML if it's so wildly nonstandard.
Personally, I think we need "Markdown Email". It looks great in plain text, and something like an end user custom stylesheet could render it pretty-fied for those that care.
Wishful thinking, sadly.
- seats 15y agoI like this idea a lot. Also something that would help would be an ignore based backward compatibility standard. Like how browsers ignore tags they don't understand, then you could send a markdown formatted message that is marked in a way that the alternative non markdown text-only version is used by older clients.
- jarin 15y agoYou can already use the multipart/alternative MIME type for that (which is what HTML emails use), it's just a matter of email clients deciding that they'll show a Content-Type other than text/html if it exists. For example, you could use just a plain text part and a multipart/alternative with a text/markdown Content-Type. The email client would render Markdown if it's capable of handling it, and the plain text version if not.
- rwl 15y agoYou could achieve something like this pretty quick with Org mode and Gnus, I think...the trouble would be getting your non-Emacs-using contacts to send you nicely formatted email.
- jimktrains2 15y agotext/x-mardown or text/-textile? It'd actually look half-way decent in a client that doesn't render it. Wish I had the time to write a Mozilla plugin:-p