Collecting data

[M-J-Robbins]

How can we collect data?

Webmail

We can send an email to a webmail client, open dev tools and look at the styles added.

Ideally we could run a script in the console that would do this automatically for us and output the results in the correct format so we just need to copy and paste the results to the repo. From a quick look getting the selectors is going to tricky, but these are included in dev tools which suggests it's possible.

Apps

Ideally, we could do something similar. We might need to spend some time looking at connecting a phone to a computer to access dev tools, or perhaps setting up an emulator.

Alternately, we can visually compare the rendering in an email client to a browser. Or hard code default styles of that device and compare directly in the email client. This may highlight things that might have changed. We could then work out a selector weight by testing different specificities to override those styles.

Time line

This could be very time-consuming, we could focus on collecting easy things first, so we have some content. Then filling in the gaps when we have better solutions or more time.