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  • How should I read HTML email?

    From Luc@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 13 19:34:07 2023
    Can you recommend any particular way to read HTML email? Any specific
    package?

    I want it to read the HTML content and print it in plain text form
    or something not too fancy.

    I don't need to handle links and images right now, but that may be
    useful in the future.

    I do need to be able to read/view/display tables though.

    Please note that I intend to do it in an Android app so I can't rely
    on external applications like I would on my Linux desktop.

    --
    Luc


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  • From saitology9@21:1/5 to Luc on Fri Jan 13 18:16:13 2023
    On 1/13/2023 5:34 PM, Luc wrote:
    Can you recommend any particular way to read HTML email? Any specific package?

    I want it to read the HTML content and print it in plain text form
    or something not too fancy.

    I don't need to handle links and images right now, but that may be
    useful in the future.

    I do need to be able to read/view/display tables though.

    Please note that I intend to do it in an Android app so I can't rely
    on external applications like I would on my Linux desktop.


    I am not sure why this reminds me of a meme from a long time ago: every application grows until they become a text editor. A famous person said
    it but who it was escapes me.

    In general, let the native app's handle the email for you. If you really
    want to, there are two packages for this: pop3 and imap. They should be available for Andorid too.

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  • From saitology9@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 13 18:59:01 2023
    On 1/13/2023 6:16 PM, saitology9 wrote:
    On 1/13/2023 5:34 PM, Luc wrote:
    Can you recommend any particular way to read HTML email? Any specific
    package?

    I want it to read the HTML content and print it in plain text form
    or something not too fancy.


    Not sure if you were only interested in displaying html. If so, there
    is iwidgets::scrolledhtml widget that might get you going.

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  • From Luc@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 13 21:17:54 2023
    On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:16:13 -0500, saitology9 wrote:

    I am not sure why this reminds me of a meme from a long time ago: every application grows until they become a text editor. A famous person said
    it but who it was escapes me.


    Sounds like something xkcd would say.


    In general, let the native app's handle the email for you. If you really
    want to, there are two packages for this: pop3 and imap. They should be available for Andorid too.


    Yes, I have successfully logged in and retrieve messages using the pop3 package. But the very first message was HTML, which was in fact very appropriate to remind me that many (most?) messages nowadays are HTML.


    Not sure if you were only interested in displaying html. If so, there
    is iwidgets::scrolledhtml widget that might get you going.


    Yes. My biggest obstacle right now will be the HTML content. I will
    investigate that package. Thank you.

    --
    Luc


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  • From Luc@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 13 21:36:43 2023
    Hmm.

    "The Scrolledhtml is almost compliant with the HTML version 3.2 specification. There are some image rendering that doesn't work, and table support is not fully integrated."

    https://incrtcl.sourceforge.net/iwidgets/iwidgets/scrolledhtml.html


    :-\


    --
    Luc


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  • From saitology9@21:1/5 to Luc on Fri Jan 13 19:43:55 2023
    On 1/13/2023 7:36 PM, Luc wrote:
    Hmm.

    "The Scrolledhtml is almost compliant with the HTML version 3.2 specification.
    There are some image rendering that doesn't work, and table support is not fully integrated."

    https://incrtcl.sourceforge.net/iwidgets/iwidgets/scrolledhtml.html


    :-\



    I think there are at least two more: one is tkhtml and the other I don't
    recall at the moment. The wiki might give you better results.

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  • From Ricardo kozmate.net@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 14 21:54:31 2023
    Em 14/01/23 00:17, Luc escreveu:
    On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:16:13 -0500, saitology9 wrote:

    I am not sure why this reminds me of a meme from a long time ago: every
    application grows until they become a text editor. A famous person said
    it but who it was escapes me.

    Sounds like something xkcd would say.



    Yes it does sound like it, yet probably not. I vaguely recall reading a
    similar sentence, something like "every application will grow it sends
    emails", back in... late 1990s?

    I'm not good with time, but it sure was a while ago :-)

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    {ricardo from kozmate.net}

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  • From Ricardo kozmate.net@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 15 09:36:19 2023
    Em 14/01/23 21:54, Ricardo kozmate.net escreveu:
    late 1990s

    At least 2003

    "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail."

    https://web.archive.org/web/20061011025302/http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-4.4.7.dos.txt

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    {ricardo from kozmate.net}

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  • From Joerg Mertens@21:1/5 to Ricardo kozmate.net on Sun Jan 15 10:38:37 2023
    "Ricardo kozmate.net" <ricardo@kozmate.net> writes:

    Yes it does sound like it, yet probably not. I vaguely recall reading
    a similar sentence, something like "every application will grow it
    sends emails", back in... late 1990s?

    This is Jamie Zawinski's Law, see

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law

    Joerg

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