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Google wants you to be able to book a flight without exiting an email:
Google is bringing its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) capabilities to email today through a developer preview for Gmail. The feature, called AMP for Email, will allow developers to make emails "more interactive and engaging." Google envisions the feature to be beneficial to users because developers can embed widgets in emails that are constantly up-to-date and include actionable functions that work without leaving your inbox. Google's existing AMP webpages are an emerging standard for webpages that load radically faster than regular mobile pages.
AMP for Email is open-source so developers can freely play around with the capabilities and use them to their advantage. Companies developing features for AMP for Email include Pinterest, Booking.com, and Doodle. Google says the AMP for Email feature will allow you to do things like RSVP to events, browse and interact with content, or fill out forms without leaving an email. For example, Google says if a contractor wants to schedule a meeting with you but isn't able to see your calendar, they'll contact you about availability. With AMP for Email, you could respond interactively through a form without ever leaving the email client.
Some observers believe AMP allows more effective phishing attempts. One serious flaw, noted by tech writer Kyle Chayka, is that disreputable parties who misuse AMP (as well as Facebook's similar Instant Articles) enable junk websites to share many of the same visual cues and features found on legitimate sites. "All publishers end up looking more similar than different. That makes separating the real from the fake even harder," said Chayka.
Also at Google and TechCrunch.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Aiwendil on Wednesday February 14 2018, @08:49AM (2 children)
Regarding the html-emails, I have a script that makes the html-usage a bit.. hostile.. in my replies.
Or rather - I have three such scripts.
1) Makes sure that no consecutive paragraphs has the same font size nor color (optionally changes font as well)
2) Instead paragraphs we have the granularity at characters
3) Hello marquee and blink-tags.
Yes, all of them prefixes with a normal black-on-white static no messing with fonts yet "I can also do this html-styling".
Tends to result in one of three things
1) People stop emailing me
2) People start sending me plain text.
3) People get very angry and after confronting me sorts into cat.1 or cat.2.
(Cat.3 usually are met with just showing them a printout of their email - sans html-parsing - and ask them to read it to you, tends to drive the point home)
alpine exists btw.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday February 14 2018, @09:11AM
This part of your post got drowned in the rest, and was what I was about to post. If you want pine without most of the bugs, alpine's your thing.
(But I'm a reluctant mutt user.)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14 2018, @03:14PM
Can you include a crypto miner for good measure?