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As someone who works on an email system, it's a bit of a shame that this didn't win over HTML at least for email between humans. HTML is a bit of nightmare to s

As someone who works on an email system, it's a bit of a shame that this didn't win over HTML at least for email between humans. HTML is a bit of nightmare to sanitize. It's also expensive to layout compared to something like text/enriched which wouldn't need a full WebView on mobile - you'd be able to easily layout using native view widgets. Especially when you consider HTML in emails is stuck on a mostly old school table based layout system for highly styled emails, and a lot of these emails are not responsive.

saba2008 5y ago
>a bit of nightmare to sanitize The fact that mail has to be sanitized at all is already a nightmare, and a perfect example of where inappropriate reuse of existing standard can lead to.
dragonwriter 5y ago
> As someone who works on an email system, it's a bit of a shame that this didn't win over HTML But, I mean, it explicitly said it expected HTML to win, and even included code to “upgrade” text/enriched to HTML 2.0 as a forward-compatibility measure given that eventuality.
dfawcus 5y ago
Some MUAs still support it for display, but no longer for creation. Which rather makes sense as old emails can hang around on systems for years. As I recall Apple Mail.app can still decode them, as can mutt. Mutt allows one to compose such, but without any specific help - one has to write the markup raw, then change the MIME type before sending.