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Notification emails should embed icons as data URIs
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The 'talk' icon in Echo talk-page notification emails is loaded via HTTP:

<img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.22wmf13/extensions/Echo/modules/icons/Talk.png" alt="" height="30" width="30"></td>

Because the image is loaded remotely, many mail readers (including Gmail) won't show it by default, and it'll trigger a prompt to display remote images which must be clicked on before you can see the icon.

I would recommend embedding the icons as data URIs if possible, so they don't have to be loaded remotely. (Hopefully this isn't a compat issue...)

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Email: embed icons as data urimediawiki/extensions/Echomaster+143 -69
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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 1:58 AM
• bzimport added a project: Notifications.
• bzimport set Reference to bz53479.
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• brooke created this task.Aug 28 2013, 2:45 PM
• bzimport added a comment.Sep 4 2013, 6:54 PM

bsitu wrote:

Thanks Brion, that's a good idea, but it looks like Gmail and Hotmail do not support data uri, it shows the text 'inline image' instead of an image

• brooke added a comment.Sep 4 2013, 7:07 PM

Dangit!

Is there an alternate way to bundle images with the email, or shall I just close this out as WONTFIX?

• bzimport added a comment.Sep 6 2013, 8:26 PM

bsitu wrote:

We could include the images as attachment, the drawback is that some clients list all of the attached files inside the email, this would give user a bad UI experience. I will see if there is any other alternatives.

• Spage added a comment.Sep 23 2013, 8:47 PM

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/238

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• Mattflaschen-WMF triaged this task as Low priority.Dec 14 2014, 7:24 AM
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Legoktm subscribed.Aug 7 2015, 9:17 PM

Hardcoded HTTP was fixed as T104835: Echo email icons are hardcoded HTTP/rECHOb12efddf3031: Use PROTO_CANONICAL for icon links in emails.

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• Catrope added a subtask: T107823: Rewrite EchoNotificationFormatter.Aug 21 2015, 11:09 PM
• Catrope closed subtask T107823: Rewrite EchoNotificationFormatter as Resolved.Nov 22 2015, 10:50 PM
• Catrope subscribed.Apr 18 2017, 6:37 PM

GMail now does display our notification icons. We did have to use PNGs instead of SVGs to make that happen, but we did that a while ago.

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• Catrope mentioned this in T203507: Remote image loaded in Echo's HTML user talk email notifications.Jan 8 2019, 7:04 AM
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gerritbot added a comment.Apr 5 2019, 5:55 PM

Change 501651 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sbisson; owner: Sbisson):
[mediawiki/extensions/Echo@master] Email: embed icons as data uri

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/501651

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gerritbot added a comment.Apr 10 2019, 6:41 PM

Change 501651 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Echo@master] Email: embed icons as data uri

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/501651

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SBisson merged a task: T203507: Remote image loaded in Echo's HTML user talk email notifications.Apr 16 2019, 2:56 PM
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SBisson closed this task as Declined.May 8 2019, 1:59 PM

We've tried embedding SVGs as data-uri, both in text and base64. The markup is sane and works in browsers but gmail doesn't render them.

We're tried including the actual SVG instead of <img src="..."> and again, the markup is correct but gmail doesn't render it.

I'm going to decline this task because of technical limitations with gmail, which is the most popular email client.

Please re-open if I'm missing something or another idea comes to mind.

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