HTML mail kind of works OK now, but we could probably improve it significantly by changing how some of the text mail sections render in their HTML version. For example:
- Email preferences could move to a new footer element.
- To/Cc can go in a footer element too? Or at least get like really small.
- Same with "Reply Handler Actions".
- Stuff like "TASK DETAIL http://blahblah/" could maybe become a "View Task" button?
So maybe we end up roughly like:
```
+--------------------------------------------+
| alincoln raised priority. [ VIEW TASK ] |
| alincoln added a comment. |
+--------------------------------------------+
Four score and seven years ago...
+--------------------------------------------+
| Email Preferences * Footer Stuff Here |
+--------------------------------------------+
```
Obviously this isn't very developed. Not sure if we can pull it off on mobile, either. From a technical perspective:
- We have to use only inline CSS since GMail just deletes all style tags, etc.
- Ideally, no images either.
- We can't do JS-driven reactive CSS stuff so we have very limited tools to make the mail behave differently on mobile vs web.
- Generally, keeping things simple is probably for the best? But some of these elements can have way nicer renderings in HTML than plaintext.