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Posted by Andy Dingley on 01/10/07 16:20
David Segall wrote:
> I thought some readers who send commercial HTML emails might be
> interested in this
> <http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/01/10/microsoft-breaks-html-email-rendering-in-outlook/>.
Interesting news, thanks.
I'm not surprised they've done this. M$oft has always suffered from its
Balkanization and the fierce and hostile competition between groups.
As the main target for Outhouse has always been the corporate market
and Word users, then there's probably a lot to be said (from their
narrow selfish aims) for them in using Word throughout.
I don't think it makes much difference for HTML email authors though.
HTML has never been intended for email and was never particularly
well-suited for it. Producing effective HTML email has always depended
on using a well-chosen subset of what was potentially possible. The
features that have been "dropped" here aren't any particularly great
loss -- animated GIFs probably being the most useful and even those
were prone to being mis-used by authors who didn't watch their file
sizes.
What this news certainly doesn't mean is that you have to write
horrible "Office style" HTML in an email, just because it's going to a
client that likes to produce that garbage itself.
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