[FFML] A thought on the future of the FFML

Mythril Moth mythrilmoth at mythrilmoth.net
Wed Jun 26 09:40:37 PDT 2013


>> The standard for email continues to be plain text in many
>> cases, does it not?  Sure, there are an increasing number
>> of HTML-friendly email clients, but is it a large enough
>> percent that we can safely abandon the text-only (and
>> HTML-badly-enough-implemented-that-it-might-as-well-be
>> text-only) readers?
>
> The standard for text has been HTML for almost five years.
>
> Plain text is an anachronism.

Exactly. People who still use plain text for e-mail (like me) do so only 
because HTML e-mail has a relatively high risk factor for trojans and such, 
to say nothing of the nonsensical embeds an e-mail even from your BANK might 
have. But in a modern sense, e-mail is usually HTML before TXT.


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