On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 11:29:31AM +0000, John Long wrote: > > I don’t think this is about right and wrong, and not only because > > there is no objectivity. multipart/alternative is an accepted > > standard, and so is HTML. You might not like how things have > > developed, and neither do I, but that doesn’t make it wrong. > > HTML is for web pages. It is wrong for email, yes.
This is just not a supportable position based on anything logical or evicence-based. HTML in e-mail has been a de-facto standard for about as long as most people have been using e-mail (admittedly, much less true for the folks on this list). It has almost universal adoption of native support in almost every e-mail client of note. Even alpine can now display HTML mail as plain text natively. Mutt is the only laggard in this regard that I am aware of. A majority of e-mail users PREFER HTML mail. https://www.clickz.com/real-world-email-client-usage-the-hard-data/47429/ https://www.slideshare.net/HubSpot/the-science-of-email-marketng/32 So I think the notion that HTML mail is wrong is just wrong-headed. I certainly have no issue if you want to say you hate it, and I would sympathize. But when you say it's wrong... I think you have no leg to stand on. > Lots of Microsoft crap seems like an "accepted standard" This has turned out to be remarkably difficult to prove, but I don't think HTML mail was invented by Microsoft, or predominated by it. AFAICT MS didn't even support HTML in e-mail until 1998, and I'm pretty positive Netscape Mail supported it in its first version, released the same year. > Simplicity and constantly adding new features that are inessential are > at odds with each other. This is true and should be considered, but not to the point of leaving the application functionally incomplete. > I think it's pretty clear the people who use mutt prefer simplicity > or they would have chosen something else. I think this is totally crazy. Mutt is anything but simple, from the user point of view. It is a beast to configure with a monstrous learning curve. Part of what gives it that is the requirement to configure how to handle even things like HTML mail, which today pretty much no one would exclude from the idea of what is essential e-mail functionality. Everyone, that is, except a subset of Mutt users. =8^) -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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