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by nailer 3207 days ago
> Although upon writing this I'm now wondering if unstyled HTML might provide improved accessibility over plaintext.

Yep. Email formatted for 65 to 78 monospaced characters with hard carriage returns (as per *nix mailing lists) look much worse on devices that are narrower or wider than this. HTML paragraphs don't have the problem.

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I think this is the problem format=flowed was created to solve. But it doesn’t seem to help. I wonder why it doesn’t have wider implementation