1. 24 June 2009

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    Outlook’s Broken - Let’s Fix It Apparently, when I get behind something, I really get behind it. Okay people, here’s the deal: Outlook 2007, a very popular email client for Windows, shipped with the same terrible web rendering engine built into Word. The ironic part is that Outlook 2000 actually had a more advanced engine (difference shown above). As the site explains: This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position, no background images and lots more. As a developer, programming for Outlook 2007 is an exercise in futility. It’s like programming for Netscape Navigator 4. Do you remember what things looked like in NN4? No — because you’ve blocked it out, just like everyone else. HTML emails can be pretty cool — Don’t let them go the way of the Quagga. Help spread the word! (via davidkaneda)

    Outlook’s Broken - Let’s Fix It

    Apparently, when I get behind something, I really get behind it. Okay people, here’s the deal: Outlook 2007, a very popular email client for Windows, shipped with the same terrible web rendering engine built into Word. The ironic part is that Outlook 2000 actually had a more advanced engine (difference shown above). As the site explains:

    This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position, no background images and lots more.

    As a developer, programming for Outlook 2007 is an exercise in futility. It’s like programming for Netscape Navigator 4. Do you remember what things looked like in NN4? No — because you’ve blocked it out, just like everyone else.

    HTML emails can be pretty cool — Don’t let them go the way of the Quagga. Help spread the word!

    (via davidkaneda)


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    Broken - Let’s Fix It...This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need...
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    Typical Microsoft short-sightedness, again.
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