<story><title>Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email</title><url>https://www.caniemail.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ktpsns</author><text>It would be really nice to have a small and simple markup language, say some markdown standard, to be the layouting language for E-Mails. No (external) images, just links, lists, headings, basic formatting.&lt;p&gt;HTML E-Mails are a security nightmare, even if &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; CSS is &amp;quot;allowed&amp;quot; and JS&amp;#x2F;iframes&amp;#x2F;external images are not loaded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcranmer</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re basically advocating for text&amp;#x2F;richtext (aka text&amp;#x2F;enriched), which was originally proposed explicitly as a replacement for HTML in email. It failed essentially because everyone who didn&amp;#x27;t want HTML wanted only plain text, and everyone who wanted something like HTML was happy to just use HTML.&lt;p&gt;Factoid of the day: Netscape added support for a &amp;lt;blink&amp;gt; tag to text&amp;#x2F;enriched bodies, and that support remains in every client that&amp;#x27;s still using Netscape&amp;#x27;s MIME code. The comment above this code just says: &amp;quot;Of course, both text&amp;#x2F;richtext and text&amp;#x2F;enriched must be enhanced &lt;i&gt;somehow&lt;/i&gt;...  Or else what would people think.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email</title><url>https://www.caniemail.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ktpsns</author><text>It would be really nice to have a small and simple markup language, say some markdown standard, to be the layouting language for E-Mails. No (external) images, just links, lists, headings, basic formatting.&lt;p&gt;HTML E-Mails are a security nightmare, even if &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; CSS is &amp;quot;allowed&amp;quot; and JS&amp;#x2F;iframes&amp;#x2F;external images are not loaded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cygned</author><text>No markdown, but we had success with this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mjml.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mjml.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Try out the online examples.</text></comment>