It is "intended to facilitate the wider interoperation of simple enriched text across a wide variety of hardware and software platforms".
[citation needed] Enriched text, or at least the subset of HTML that can be transformed into enriched text, is seen as preferable to full HTML for use with email (mainly because of security considerations).
Neither should be confused with Rich Text Format (RTF, MIME type text/rtf or application/rtf) which are unrelated specifications, devised by Microsoft.
A single newline in enriched text is treated as a space.
Enriched text is a supported format of Emacs,[3] Mutt,[4] Mulberry and Netscape Communicator.