Re: [PWP] HTML email

>From a developer standpoint - the main reason for restricting
HTML/CSS/Javascript is the potential for malicious code.  Unlike an
attachment, the user cannot simply say "don't view this email" if they open
it, it renders.

If PWP could address "sandboxing" in such a way that it could limit
exposure, then it COULD be a very good solution.   I'm not sure if that is
really within the scope of PWP, but email currently does have different
sections for "text" and "html" (so you could simultaneously send an email
as both text and html and let the email client determine) so having a 3rd
option of the "pwp" version, or somehow have the "html" section be replaced
with a PWP, that would be interesting to me.

-Nick

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Peter Krautzberger <
peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org> wrote:

> Thanks for those comments. Apologies for mixing this topic up with PWP.
>
> Of course, Nick describes the state of things painfully accurately. Still,
> it seems to me that there might be low-hanging fruit that could be
> addressed in the long run (e.g., inline SVG comes to mind).
>
> I'd be interested in hearing who else might be interested in this
> particular problem.
>
> Best,
> Peter.
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
>
>> I think that the first step for something like that, if this is what we
>> want to support, ought to be a standard HTML in email. Some sort of an HTML
>> 'profile' (or 'vernacular'?) for email format, email clients, etc. I know
>> that this comes up, time to time, but I have never seen any systematic work
>> towards this. PWP, after all, is 'just' collecting mutually interdependent
>> resources and, in this case, pivot is the HTML content, PWP would just make
>> sure that all necessary additions would be considered as one unit…
>>
>> Ie, I am not sure PWP would be able to solve this particular problem per
>> se…
>>
>> Ivan
>>
>>
>> On 14 Dec 2015, at 21:03, Peter Krautzberger <
>> peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear DPUB IG,
>>
>> I was wondering in how far HTML email might be an interesting use case
>> for PWP (or at least a worthwhile discussion).
>>
>> There seem to be still a lot of challenges surrounding publication by
>> email (CSS, webfonts, SVG etc but also on the authoring / email client
>> side). Perhaps PWP could help here or identify important pain points?
>>
>> I'm not an expert at all in this (although I've experimented with
>> mathematics in email as you might suspect). So I'm hoping other people
>> might share thoughts on the topic.
>>
>> Best,
>> Peter.
>>
>>
>>
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