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It's easy to say this, but can you imagine the hodge-podge of proprietary garbage we'd have to deal with if you couldn't email a simple file attachment to someo
by astrodust 2y ago
It's easy to say this, but can you imagine the hodge-podge of proprietary garbage we'd have to deal with if you couldn't email a simple file attachment to someone?
- arjvik 2y agoCan still do plain text with attachments... unless you expect that companies would move to emailing you HTML files of their message?
- candiddevmike 2y agoI think that hodge podge (OneDrive, Google drive, Dropbox, etc) is what most people already use. "Simple file attachments" are an oxymoron these days--size/extension restrictions, spam scores, not to mention the hell of iterating over email.
- kiwijamo 2y agoDepends on your use case. Sometimes I want to send a document and not have the receiver change it at their whims. E.g. quotes for jobs. Simple attachments are great for that. Also I find some people who aren't good with tech find attachments much easier to deal with. If I send a an attachment I am 100% confident the other person can open it. No so for sharing links etc.
- smsm42 2y agoI'm good with attachment when you need to send me a real document, but if the email text itself ends up being multi-megabyte blob because you absolutely must have your name in the signature in blue and italic, then I tend to frown upon this. Over decades of my work I probably sent thousands of emails, yet very rarely if ever I needed HTML capabilities, and pretty much never ones that go beyond very basic Markup formatting.
- hollerith 2y agoI'm confused. How is HTML needed to attach a file (or to open the attachment)?
- astrodust 2y agoMIME is needed, and with MIME, HTML is basically right there, so people are going to use it.
- hollerith 2y agoHTML is not needed for attachments to work. If the government for example, banned all use of HTML in emails, people could still attach (non-HTML) files to emails the same way they do now. Therefore the comment I replied to, a defense of HTML in emails, is a bogus argument.
- anamexis 2y agoThe point is that attachments are needed to make HTML work. If you have attachments, you have HTML emails.
- throw0101c 2y ago> The point is that attachments are needed to make HTML work. They are not. MIME headers are helpful for telling MUAs what the content (type and/or disposition) of a message is, but there's nothing from stoping mail clients from just putting "raw" HTML in the body of an e-mail message without MIME.
- astrodust 2y ago
- feikname 2y agoEmail attachments are defined through MIME and don't depend at all on HTML being available as a Content-Type. We could well have had another format and attachments together.
- djbusby 2y agoYea! `text/rtf` FTW!