This is mostly a distraction, but I still wish text/enriched had won instead of HTML email: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_text" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_text</a><p>If only because it's simpler, so it might have been more fully and consistently supported (and it's not a security nightmare).
The last time this got submitted and ended up with comments is here (though this is the forth time this has been submitted in as many days).<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12500838" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12500838</a>
For those who are not familiar in Email's CSS support, Gmail is actually a blocker, not a mover: <a href="https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/" rel="nofollow">https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/</a>
It's a good start, and something that's very useful for people coding HTML emails.<p>That said, we still need to get this sort of thing in Microsoft Outlook, and both that and Gmail really need to support CSS to something of a normal standard, like with say Apple Mail or what not. There's no real reason email standards should be different to browser ones, except with the former not having Javascript included.
This is a great thing. One more metric by which to filter out spam. If I am receiving an email from an actual person, it will be plain text, perhaps with 1-2 links or images, and will not contain any CSS.
That is great. We use emarsys for marketing emails which extensively uses media queries to build a mobile specific version of your template.<p>The example they give with a YouTube email. I wonder if they decided to make the change because of internal pressure from those sending out marketing emails.
although this was announced on friday, it has yet to be enabled (at least on test emails i've been developing). I'm not sure why it was announced without the feature being generally available, but i guess whenever they flip the switch, old emails will be upgraded to use the style tags embedded in them?<p>Even without media queries, enabling <style> blocks in html emails is huge (google was the last holdout). For anyone developing html emails, this is a nice set of changes.
Url changed from <a href="https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/09/better-emails-tailored-to-all-your-devices.html" rel="nofollow">https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/09/better-emails-tailored-...</a>, which points to this, which is more specific.