I've had more than one person I work with take screenshots of their desktop, paste them into a word document, then attach the word document to an email to get me to help them with their problem. This has the same energy.

[–] 0x0 3 points 2 months ago

Used to work in a place where, to get credentials, a used would need to simple send an email from their mail servers and would be enough... One of them would write a fancy Please add used x letter, print it, have the Head of Whatever sign it, scan it onto non-OCR pdf, then mail it... joy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve always wished Markdown was better supported in email. I work with external companies’ APIs a lot where email is the medium, and typically I use a Windows monospace font for code snippets (I’m on macOS but there are a handful of monospaced fonts that work on both).

It’s very clunky, and I wish the backtick notation would work out of the box. Whoever decided HTML in email was the way to go should be shot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I completely agree, and in general working with email programmatically sucks. MIME is a mimefield.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Honest to god, I've seen people from the past trying to write html for a website on Word.

[–] nulluser 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

True story, about 20-25 years ago, a radio station in my home town was playing ads for some new local business doing web design.

After hearing the ad on my drive to work for the umpteen billionth time I finally got curious and went to check out their own website (I they're charging people to build websites, they're own website must be a pretty awesome demonstration of their skills, right?)

The website looked like absolute garbage and, upon viewing the source, the meta tags clearly betrayed the fact that it was created in Word.

I can only imagine how much money they were paying to run those ads. I even considered the possibility I was being pranked somehow.

[–] starshipwinepineapple 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In fairness websites from 2000-2004 werent all that better

Were there better ways to make a site? Absolutely, but it is much less wild than if you told me that this happened last week. Plus i would hope they were just churning out websites for cheap since a lot places didn't have a website, or they used geocities/similar

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

For me that's the golden age, and after that: darkness, desperation, flash.

[–] glockenspiel 2 points 2 months ago

I don't care what you say, the Apple store circa 2001 is iconic and definitely has that "lickability" factor that Jobs loved so much about the original OS X's Aqua UI.

[–] 0x0 1 points 2 months ago

Word? Not FrontPage? That was an improvement.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Did they not know that word can generate very convoluted HTML for them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I started learning HTML at the age of 10 using FrontPage and Word. There were entire utilities dedicated to stripping out Word’s atrocious HTML at the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Pfff

I code in PowerPoint