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A fully-featured HTML "document" is really an application, not a document at all, so it makes sense that mail clients limit support. But this fragmentation make
by idle_zealot 2y ago
A fully-featured HTML "document" is really an application, not a document at all, so it makes sense that mail clients limit support. But this fragmentation makes me yearn for a real standard here, an official non-application subset of HTML that doesn't allow fetching remote resources or executing code. Just a document format with embedded media, animations, styling, etc.
- social_quotient 2y agoIs it a “document” if it has animations and non static (video) media?
- idle_zealot 2y agoArguably? We don't really have a standard format like that in common usage so I can't predict where people would settle on it linguistically.
- nimih 2y agoAn .epub file is in a lot of ways what you're asking for (it's HTML-based, it's designed to package inline media such as images and provide fallbacks if the client can't/won't make remote requests, it has limited/no scripting capabilities), and you might find it interesting to peruse its specification[1]. [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/ https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/
- joquarky 2y agoPDF documents support video.
- jasomill 2y agoPDF documents support launching external programs. I wouldn't want my email client to support arbitrary PDF features, either.
- pyrale 2y agoQuite honestly, people have no business sending me code to execute or resources to fetch. I get that adtech is interested in using my email as their billboard, but they can fuck right off. Plaintext + attachments or gtfo.