Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderWhat an excellent resource! (And yes Outlook is a pain and supports so very little!) We've tried building email templates for notifications for our apps where I work, and it has typically been a pain. We have since swapped to using mjml (https://mjml.io/) to build the templates, and it's working wonders. The output seems the be the most compatible with all different devices that we've tested on. The other tool we enjoy using is Litmus (https://litmus.com), which allows you to…
Another way of looking at this scoreboard is as an approximate inverse ranking of webmail client security and leak vectors, with Gmail stripping far more dangerous elements than most webmail clients. This is actually a great tool to find vulnerabilities in various webmail clients such as ProtonMail and Hey, just compare the HTML or CSS features they do not yet filter compared to Gmail, then do a search for "[feature] + exploit" to see how a feature could be abused…
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. HTML E-Mails are a security nightmare, even if "only" CSS is "allowed" and JS/iframes/external images are not loaded.
I feel like this should just be a single page that says “NO” in 120 point type.
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- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 2121
- Total comments
- 720
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-10 | Can I email… Support tables for HTML and CSS in emails | tckr | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-09-10 | 'Can I Use' for Email | nailer | 14 | 1 |
| 2019-09-12 | Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for emailFirst breakout | heidijavi | 666 | 196 |
| 2021-05-11 | Can I Email? | ggregoire | 682 | 273 |
| 2023-04-25 | Can I Email | cimnine | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-11-14 | Can I email – like caniuse.com but for email clients | alexzeitler | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-05-06 | Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email contentHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | fagnerbrack | 755 | 250 |