Re: [Tools-discuss] formatting follies, was The IETF's email

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According to Keith Moore  <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>On 8/20/23 22:33, John Levine wrote:
>> I expect this isn't a very popular viewpoint in this crowd, but if you
>> can assume all of your readers can render HTML, you can do some nice
>> stuff in your mail. I often get mail from clients where they have a
>> question about what I wrote so they put the question at the top and
>> highlight the quoted text of interest in yellow. That is about two
>> clicks in an HTML editor.
>Right, and these are nice features to have.    But HTML in email is a 
>slippery slope.   It's hard to draw the line to say exactly how much 
>HTML/CSS/JS/etc. is too much to use in email. ...

Oddly, people outside the IETF don't seem to have any problem.  Any format
you can add in popular MUAs like Outlook or Thynderbird or webmail like
Gmail or O365 renders fine in all of the others.

R's,
John
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