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Re: HTML email

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Wed, 11 November 2020 16:10 UTC

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From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:10:21 -0500
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Subject: Re: HTML email
To: Timothy Mcsweeney <tim@dropnumber.com>
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:43 AM Timothy Mcsweeney <tim@dropnumber.com>
wrote:

> Well it looks like all my previous emails are in markup.  I guess I will
> have to reload every single email in its text version.
>

When Nathaniel Borenstein originally proposed MIME, he tried to persuade
people to adopt a rich text markup. That failed and he was criticized for
it, but he was right.

HTML/2.0 would have been an excellent basis for rich text markup. It
provides essentially the same capabilities Nathaniel proposed which are
similar to those supported by Gmail and Medium and Markdown.

Today's HTML is not a structured markup. It has been turned into a
presentation markup, not a structured markup. And it really doesn't work at
all well. Responding to messages in the wrong client can result in
ludicrously tiny or huge text.

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