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In my recollection it was Netscape, this appers to confirm it: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/09/html-email-was-that-your-fault/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/0
by superjan 1y ago
In my recollection it was Netscape, this appers to confirm it:
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/09/html-email-was-that-your-fault/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/09/html-email-was-that-your-fa...
- weinzierl 1y agoFrom my recollection Microsoft pushed their own RTF like rich mail format hard for a while and did support HTML only reluctantly.
- account42 1y agoThey still support HTML only reluctantly.
- donnachangstein 1y agoThanks for linking to a picture of testicles.
- stickfigure 1y agoThat particular blog author displays special content if the referrer is HN. It's embarrassingly juvenile for someone that must be in their 50s by now.
- opello 1y agoHaving had that a few times, and recently relaxing Firefox's referer policy for some other site compatibility which had avoided it before, I came to this workaround with uBlock Origin: jwz.org##^responseheader(set-cookie) jwz.org##^responseheader(location) Hopefully documenting it doesn't perpetuate the arms race.
- superjan 1y agoOh sorry, I did not know that was the guy who hates being linked to from HN. Copy the link manually to read it if you still care to learn what he wrote.