Gmail just got more reactive. Google is bringing emoji reactions to its email service, allowing users to add personality to their messages. Reactions Google is bringing emoji reactions like a thumbs up, party popper and a laughing face to Gmail.
There’s an RFC for this, similar to how there’s an RFC for responding to RSVPs. Some mail clients (Outlook) decide to hide them or show them with a bunch of details, others will give you the plaintext description of the RSVP response.
In this case, if your email client doesn’t support the RFC, you’ll get a single email in the mail thread with an emoji (if viewing plaintext mode) or, more likely, a description like “Steve responded with 🔝” from the HTML MIME part.
As this is legitimate mail (that notably is a reply to another email with a valid message ID for the recipient) I don’t think has any spam implications.
RFC9078, which is currently experimental but still standardised.
There’s no need to change standard for email because of its extensibility through headers and MIME types, so I don’t think the RFC needs to be upgraded all the way to Internet Standard for it to be relevant in this case.
I think this is an incredibly silly standard, though. I don’t see the need for emoji reactions under email and I doubt it’ll solve any real world problems, but the people who do see value in it may as well use it.
RSVP stuff is done through RFC 5545 and its many updates, I believe, though there’s also an RFC for resource reservation which has RSVP in its title.
Thanks :). I’ve actually been looking for the RSVP stuff and I wasn’t sure which RFC to look through (wasn’t sure if it was in the CalDAV one or the iCalendar one… and they’re weirdly huge). I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction!
Also was curious how they were implementing reactions in e-mail. I actually think it’s a good feature, and it’s one that’s slowly been making it into XMPP and stuff. Emoji reactions and stuff sound kind of dumb and like a “whatever, who cares?” feature, but I find that on platforms like slack they’re actually a really good way to deal with quickly confirming something / finalizing decisions / quickly gauging the opinion of a group. I think a huge problem with e-mail and instant messaging is that they can be quite noisy, so having a “quiet” way to respond without having a thread explode is actually pretty welcome in my opinion.
There’s an RFC for this, similar to how there’s an RFC for responding to RSVPs. Some mail clients (Outlook) decide to hide them or show them with a bunch of details, others will give you the plaintext description of the RSVP response.
In this case, if your email client doesn’t support the RFC, you’ll get a single email in the mail thread with an emoji (if viewing plaintext mode) or, more likely, a description like “Steve responded with 🔝” from the HTML MIME part.
As this is legitimate mail (that notably is a reply to another email with a valid message ID for the recipient) I don’t think has any spam implications.
Which RFCs are you referring to?
RFC9078, which is currently experimental but still standardised.
There’s no need to change standard for email because of its extensibility through headers and MIME types, so I don’t think the RFC needs to be upgraded all the way to Internet Standard for it to be relevant in this case.
I think this is an incredibly silly standard, though. I don’t see the need for emoji reactions under email and I doubt it’ll solve any real world problems, but the people who do see value in it may as well use it.
RSVP stuff is done through RFC 5545 and its many updates, I believe, though there’s also an RFC for resource reservation which has RSVP in its title.
Thanks :). I’ve actually been looking for the RSVP stuff and I wasn’t sure which RFC to look through (wasn’t sure if it was in the CalDAV one or the iCalendar one… and they’re weirdly huge). I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction!
Also was curious how they were implementing reactions in e-mail. I actually think it’s a good feature, and it’s one that’s slowly been making it into XMPP and stuff. Emoji reactions and stuff sound kind of dumb and like a “whatever, who cares?” feature, but I find that on platforms like slack they’re actually a really good way to deal with quickly confirming something / finalizing decisions / quickly gauging the opinion of a group. I think a huge problem with e-mail and instant messaging is that they can be quite noisy, so having a “quiet” way to respond without having a thread explode is actually pretty welcome in my opinion.