[reichstein]

They totally do, but there is no single file type which supports all the formatting you might occasionally want, like math or floating text boxes or images, at least no format short of PDF. And which is editable, quotable (important for email, even Gmail keeps messing up quoting parts of numbered lists), efficient, implementable, and not a security liability.

So we keep choosing formats that support the subset of features that our current problem needs. Email multipart messages containing a "safe" subset of HTML has solved some problems adequately, and when it doesn't always work, we include a link to a web page, so you can show it in a real browser, or we attach or embed a PDF.

[6510]

It gets quite hilarious when we take the design goals, technological difficulties both foreseen and experienced, insights picked up, compare the "end" results with the goals and then compare the excuses with what should have been possible technically.

As we cant blame anyone specific, I would have to conclude we did everything wrong and had very poor excuses for it.

A complete embarrassment. I find it rather entertaining but offer no solution.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19258