On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:47:38 +1300 martin f krafft <madd...@madduck.net> wrote:
> Regarding the following, written by "John Long" on 2019-10-31 at > 10:30 Uhr +0000: > >1. Commonly done != standard. There are standards for things like > >MIME, POP3, IMAP etc. I'm not aware of ANSI, ISO, IETF standards > >that say that HTML email is a thing. > > Quoting the HTML RFC from 1995: "The Hypertext Markup Language > (HTML) is a simple markup language used to create hypertext > documents that are platform independent. HTML documents are SGML > documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for > representing information from a wide range of domains. HTML markup > can represent hypertext news, **mail**, documentation, and > hypermedia; …" That's the tail wagging the dog. I'm saying I haven't seen an *email* RFC that says "HTML may/should be used for email." But I'm ok with not discussing this anymore, if you are ;) /jl
