* Christian Boltz
Hello,
Am Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2020, 23:31:26 CEST schrieb Carlos E. R.:
We have been testing html on the offtopic mail list for some time now, works nicely. But I suspect that one subscriber went out. There are some diehards that hate the very idea of html posts, although it allows some formatting like tables, and is not evil per se.
Tables might be a (maybe the only?) positive example of HTML usage, and HTML mails are not really "evil", but in many cases harder to read ;-)
HTML allows to define too much - and I really prefer to read mails in the font _I_ like (even if the sender prefers Comic Sans ;-) with the font size I like, and with quotes colored as defined in my mail program. IMHO mails are about the content, not about looking nice. I'm also quite sure that having all mails looking the same way makes reading easier and faster, at least for me.
There might be usecases for HTML mails, but I don't think that our mailinglists would benefit from using HTML mails. And I'm quite sure that I'll always prefer the text/plain variant if both are included ;-)
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