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I 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 under
by seats 15y ago
I 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.