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Yeah, and have your email appear significantly worse on a bunch of email clients all in the name of tech purism / nostalgia for ‘the old days’. After I saw how
by cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
Yeah, and have your email appear significantly worse on a bunch of email clients all in the name of tech purism / nostalgia for ‘the old days’.
After I saw how usual it was for plain text email to be rendered in a fixed-width font, instead or something more sane, there’s no way I could justify doing it just because “HTML email is an abomination” or whatever.
- tjohns 3y agoMost clients allow you to pick which font your plain text email is rendered in. Plain text gives the recipient control over how the content is rendered - as opposed to HTML which forces your choices on the reader.
- jbaber 3y agoReaders don't know this. They just know your e-mails always look weird and quote other e-mails weirdly. I say this as a daily mutt user.
- zelphirkalt 3y agoLet illiterates wonder, one day they might set out to find out the reason and learn something on the way.
- avidphantasm 3y agoI am most against HTML email for security and privacy reasons. Plain text (or hell even RTF) are simply safer. Also, most HTML email is used for marketing, which we don’t need to be making easier/better. Really Markdown email would be a happy medium, anything but whatever non-standard abominations Outlook/Exchange inject (don’t get me started on .eml files).