Expand your group of people, because you clearly don’t know enough people.
It might seem like I’m criticizing the guy, but the thing is, there is a very real problem where people are looking at this from their own tech-forward perspective when this is a topic that affects many more people.
...and before the inevitable questioning I'm going to receive: no, I'm not German, and I know more people who aren't, with similar plaintext preferences.
- A normative one : the less is supported, the better.
- A descriptive one : many (not indicative of any share) of their relations actually do that.
None of the points is telling about their relations, aside from, maybe, not having many friends in adtech.
HTML email would not be a thing if only adtech people used it, my man.
And, by the way, most of my friends do not use html/CSS directly, or even indirectly use it besides some bold, coloring or the random photo attachment. Zero of them know caniemail.com, and, if they understood the point of it, zero of them would want or need it.
Average people seeing html in their mail doesn't mean they have an opinion on it, or would want more of it if they were told honestly what it does and who abuses it.
There are two parts to how HTML email is used: Creation and consumption. The average person consumes HTML email.
No, but that was mine in the message you answered to.
> The average person consumes HTML email.
And I'm not sure the average person cares about receiving elaborate emails with spy pixels and advanced use of CSS either.
And parent said "you don't know enough people", not "you don't know any people".
It's 2024. Emailing large file attachments is about as old and busted as FTP. There are so many other services to "share" large files. Attachment to email was such a kludgy hack in the first place just shows it was only the best worst idea waiting for better solutions. We have them now.
I get that y’all don’t like HTML email, but the fact of the matter is, that was a battle lost 25 years ago, and we need to figure out how to keep what we have working for people who don’t even know how to set plaintext email.
That’s what this particular tool is for.
https://lutrasecurity.com/en/articles/kobold-letters/
And if we have to chose between bold letters or less malware, we should choose the latter.
But the mail protocol is still the same.
Email is a standards backwater, but the solution is not to kneecap it.