On 26 Feb 2026, at 12:50, Jason Davies wrote:
Most emailers that do styled (or 'rich' as it's usually called) text do it with WYSIWYG – you select text and make it bold, and so on. Mailmate simply uses markdown (plain text with simple mark-up) which is converted to html for other emailers to read.
Actually, HTML is most definitely **not** WYSIWYG and was **never** supposed to be. This is one of the many reasons why HTML was **not** a good choice to use for e-mail. But that battle was fought (and lost) years ago…
For some Mac context, here's a video with Steve Jobs showing off "WYSWYG e-mails" in 1990, before HTML even existed, though Tim Berners-Lee would develop HTML on a similar system. At the time they were using Postscript but I think they went onto RTF later for a more universal format.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrTag7nSHlw Charlie -- Charlie Clark Sengelsweg 34 Düsseldorf D- 40489 Tel: +49-203-746000 Mobile: +49-178-782-6226
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