undefined | Better HN

0 pointsjvolkman6y ago0 comments

Or, maybe Amazon will helpfully add an alert to your order receipt when the shipment is unexpectedly delayed?

At any rate, the other MIME parts aren't gone. In gmail you can just click "show HTML message".

0 comments

> maybe Amazon will helpfully add an alert to your order receipt when the shipment is unexpectedly delayed?

Alternatively Amazon could send a followup email. This way the sequence of events is preserved and not dependent on the sender.

I currently use email as a immutable list of events that have occurred in my life but with this I can no longer continue to do so.

jvolkmanOP6y ago

So just use a client that doesn't support dynamic email, or disable the feature in clients that do.

landryraccoon6y ago

> At any rate, the other MIME parts aren't gone. In gmail you can just click "show HTML message"

If dynamically loaded content becomes widely supported, why would that mime part continue to exist? The web already doesn’t work without javascript. Why wouldn’t email quickly follow suit as well?

jvolkmanOP6y ago

MUAs have widely supported HTML emails for decades, and yet Amazon still includes a text/plain part with their order confirmation emails.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 comments

gopkarthik6y ago

> maybe Amazon will helpfully add an alert to your order receipt when the shipment is unexpectedly delayed?

Alternatively Amazon could send a followup email. This way the sequence of events is preserved and not dependent on the sender.

I currently use email as a immutable list of events that have occurred in my life but with this I can no longer continue to do so.

jvolkmanOP6y ago

So just use a client that doesn't support dynamic email, or disable the feature in clients that do.

landryraccoon6y ago

> At any rate, the other MIME parts aren't gone. In gmail you can just click "show HTML message"

jvolkmanOP6y ago

MUAs have widely supported HTML emails for decades, and yet Amazon still includes a text/plain part with their order confirmation emails.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse