Yesterday all my emails were readable on mailarchive.ietf.org and today they are not. go figure. I guess everybody gets to read them again! haha > On 11/11/2020 11:10 AM Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:43 AM Timothy Mcsweeney <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > >
