> The die-hards who still, in 2020, complain about HTML email are just wrong and absurd.
I understand not liking HTML email, but I agree that complaining about it is unnecessary. For one thing, in my experience practically no message of any importance whatsoever is in HTML. I could simply not read any HTML email and no-one would ever notice.
Of course, this is isn't true for everyone: while I have no first hand experience of this, there are apparently some work environments were people receive HTML email that actually is important for them to read. If the formatting isn't too complex, say, just a few headings, italic text and images, then rendering it in Emacs with shr works just fine. For more complex HTML that Emacs can't handle, Gnus has K H, which opens it right away in a browser window.
Now, if you feel pressure to send HTML email, not just to read it, then you can use one of several Emacs packages to write in Org mode or Markdown and have it automatically converted to HTML and sent as email. I actually do this sometimes for math-heavy emails and it works just fine (my previous system for that was to send people PDFs).
> Contrary to what they say, HTML email is very useful for discussing code: e.g. the ability to send well-presented syntax-highlighted code fragments for discussion is helpful, not a hindrance.
OK, that I disagree with but just because color schemes are highly personal. It's more comfortable to read that code in your own text editor, with your preferred color scheme. Doing so is easier if you were reading the email inside your text editor to begin with.
> Gnus has K H, which opens it right away in a browser window.
When doing this mind that HTML engines in many mail clients are limited. However when using the default browser the mail can run JavaScript and can remote load images, which allows tracking when you read the message.
I understand not liking HTML email, but I agree that complaining about it is unnecessary. For one thing, in my experience practically no message of any importance whatsoever is in HTML. I could simply not read any HTML email and no-one would ever notice.
Of course, this is isn't true for everyone: while I have no first hand experience of this, there are apparently some work environments were people receive HTML email that actually is important for them to read. If the formatting isn't too complex, say, just a few headings, italic text and images, then rendering it in Emacs with shr works just fine. For more complex HTML that Emacs can't handle, Gnus has K H, which opens it right away in a browser window.
Now, if you feel pressure to send HTML email, not just to read it, then you can use one of several Emacs packages to write in Org mode or Markdown and have it automatically converted to HTML and sent as email. I actually do this sometimes for math-heavy emails and it works just fine (my previous system for that was to send people PDFs).
> Contrary to what they say, HTML email is very useful for discussing code: e.g. the ability to send well-presented syntax-highlighted code fragments for discussion is helpful, not a hindrance.
OK, that I disagree with but just because color schemes are highly personal. It's more comfortable to read that code in your own text editor, with your preferred color scheme. Doing so is easier if you were reading the email inside your text editor to begin with.