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by johnea 1040 days ago
Plain Text Rules!

If you need tables, render in a fixed width font.

HTML in email sucks in many more ways than are described here...

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Ugh… Don’t get me started on HTML in emails. What was so wrong with plaintext for emails? Vomit (meant to type Comic, but the typo is staying) Sans? Non-W3 compliant contrast ratios? Nineteen embedded images?

Seriously, if I want to send you the pictures from the beach I can do it with an attachment.

Plaintext works, but as the great David Bowie said: “If it works, it’s out of date.”