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by thiht 1037 days ago
Once again the stereotypical HN comment of « no this is all wrong, my way is right »

For all communications that matter today, email is HTML. No one cares that JohnFen choses to not render them as HTML.

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> No one cares that JohnFen choses to not render them as HTML.

Ironically, this is a reaction to "email is text only!" as stereotypical as the comment you are venting about.

You simply put your own bubble in the center of the universe („all communication that matters“ ... ?!). For example: Our company cares, our whole team cares. My bubble cares. I care. And I think we are running serious business.

We might not be the majority, but when one is just looking at the amounts of mail, even common users are less important then bots.

But I understand many people do not care about because they simply don't have to and/or are not into topic. It „works“. And therefore I'm still not sorting out HTML emails in my inbox or complain when receiving them. But I will not make the problem even bigger and start sending them (so... leading by example at most :-D).

Additionally, I think the article is another proof why HTML emails still is a bad idea although I don't blame people on the streets. Even if it "works". But clearly, there is much text email out there that matters.

Whast about text messages? We must have HTML in text message too, I think, so that we can use them more effectively.
I believe the 20 year old MMS standard supported in principle a XHTML subset via WAP.
Not necessarily HTML, but yeah? Why not?
> No one cares that JohnFen choses to not render them as HTML.

Many people care. If you aren't including a plain text version of your email, you aren't following email best practices.

If people care it's not because of an RFC from 30 years ago, it's because marketers have recently started to notice that plain text can sometimes cut through in a way that HTML doesn't.

Sometimes being the word.

Most corporate email will continue to be HTML for the foreseeable. There's no point expecting it to be anything else, because it just won't be.

>> An email is a text document ... the HTML is never rendered because I don't allow it.

> For all communications that matter today, email is HTML.

Ha, thwarted you both!

I only accept and send RTF.