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What if email support Markdown formatting?
- No changes to protocols. Simply use markdown in the Content-Type.
- No breaking changes. Clients that don't support markdown can display it as plain text.
- Rendering can be performed on the client side. Users can apply their favorite CSS for the reading pane.
- warrenm 3y ago>Users can apply their favorite CSS for the reading pane Tha sounds interesting and all ... but [practically] no one would do that
- warrenm 3y agoYou already can write email in markdown, though ... because it's just text
- Leftium 3y agoWhile very popular and well-known by the tech community, markdown is very niche and unknown to the general public. Fun fact: markdown's syntax was inspired by plain-text email conventions: > ...the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email. https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/