Re: HTML for email

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On Tue, Mar 2, 2021, at 10:52, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 06:47:20PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 3/1/21 6:32 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

> > (FWIW, I myself perennially find myself reminding people that the official
> > IETF mail archive (web) service only displays the text/plain component, so
> > things like color and <div>s for quoting/indentation are lost.)

> To me it seems like an "official" archive needs to preserve messages in 
> the formats in which they were submitted, or as close to that as possible.

> I can certainly understand if the web interface to such an archive 
> doesn't support every aspect of MIME, or if it is careful about what 
> HTML (or JS, or...) it presents to the reader.   But losing color and 
> indentation seems very sub-optimal.

> It's just a simple matter of (yet more) programming I suppose. And the 
> devil is in the details.

I put the "web" qualifier in because there is also an official IMAP
archive, that does preserve the message as submitted.  But it's not very
discoverable and requires quite a bit more effort to set up and use.

Which then feeds into the very unofficial mirror I'm running, which does preserve all the HTML stuff :)

https://ietf.topicbox-scratch.com/groups/ietf/Tec34c67f6c0f8217/html-for-email

Bron.

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  Bron Gondwana, CEO, Fastmail Pty Ltd
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