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Why use HTML in emails though?
by Lxr 7y ago
Why use HTML in emails though?
- omnimus 7y agoBecause mere humans like to have images, colors and text formating in emails.
- jobigoud 7y agoIt's convenient for underline, bold or italics in some long winded messages.
- swalladge 7y agoThat's why we have lightweight markup syntaxes like markdown.
- krapp 7y agoMarkdown is a lightweight syntax for writing and generating HTML, like BBCode. It's not an alternative syntax to HTML.
- Moru 7y agoMarkdown is designed to be readable without encoding it as HTML though, so is nicely readable on old email clients too.
- krapp 7y agoSure, but then it's just plain text, and plain text could be perfectly legible before Markdown came along. The only tangible benefit Markdown provides is letting people write HTML who don't like the aesthetics of HTML tags.
- swalladge 7y agoThe idea is that it gives a standard for semantic markup that can be read as plain text. Lists, highlighted text, block quotes, etc. that is all plain text but easily parsed by humans.
- Simon_says 7y agoI want to write mathematics in my emails all the time, and sometimes I want to communicate with people who don't yet know LaTeX.
- yyyk 7y agoBecause nothing else has anything beyond the most minimal support for right-to-left languages. Aside: it's nice that the site checks <bdi>, but dir/direction is much more widely used in practice and should be added.
- krapp 7y agoEvery reason listed in this subthread, but also tracking gifs and other means of spying on the end user.
- jraph 7y agoEmail clients block remote images by default. If an email client does not, it's a bug.
- dbuder 7y agoI think many people in this thread making their living by sending emails. imo it should be text only, no pictures and links should be treated like pariahs. It is a total nightmare and if you try and set your own mail server up gmail won't deliver your emails.
- ilikehurdles 7y agoHTML emails are a blessing. Receiving them allows me the ability to quickly glance at an email from an unexpected sender and immediately recognize it as a marketing email or cold sales, and send it to the spam folder without needing to read a single word.