HTML and Outlook 2010 [modified]
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So, Big news. Just recieved an e-mail that Office 2010 hit the shelves.. Has anyone already had the pleasure to see if the guys from fixoutlook.org[^] had any impact? I'm suspecting not.. Anyway, does anyone have any tips or tricks regarding writing multi-mailclient-compatible e-mails? My design skills are pretty much over-tested when it comes to making cool and fashionable newsletters. Anyway, let Outlook 2010's e-mail rendering capability-bashing commence!
modified on Thursday, July 15, 2010 7:12 AM
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So, Big news. Just recieved an e-mail that Office 2010 hit the shelves.. Has anyone already had the pleasure to see if the guys from fixoutlook.org[^] had any impact? I'm suspecting not.. Anyway, does anyone have any tips or tricks regarding writing multi-mailclient-compatible e-mails? My design skills are pretty much over-tested when it comes to making cool and fashionable newsletters. Anyway, let Outlook 2010's e-mail rendering capability-bashing commence!
modified on Thursday, July 15, 2010 7:12 AM
Eaverae wrote:
They can bash about Outlook, with such a poor site design that takes an eternity to load, they won't see me again.
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Eaverae wrote:
They can bash about Outlook, with such a poor site design that takes an eternity to load, they won't see me again.
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Agreed, that site looks terrible. Was the influence for the design a car crash?
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Eaverae wrote:
They can bash about Outlook, with such a poor site design that takes an eternity to load, they won't see me again.
Yeah they might have wanted to alter that beforehand.. :P Anyway, they do make a point though, e-mail rendering in outlook is a b*tch. Being a Microsoft fanboy myself, I think they could at least have considered putting parallel rendering options in Outlook 2010 after the thrash-talk the 2007 release has endured on this particular topic. Shouldn't development of e-mail move forward instead of backwards in time?
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So, Big news. Just recieved an e-mail that Office 2010 hit the shelves.. Has anyone already had the pleasure to see if the guys from fixoutlook.org[^] had any impact? I'm suspecting not.. Anyway, does anyone have any tips or tricks regarding writing multi-mailclient-compatible e-mails? My design skills are pretty much over-tested when it comes to making cool and fashionable newsletters. Anyway, let Outlook 2010's e-mail rendering capability-bashing commence!
modified on Thursday, July 15, 2010 7:12 AM
Eaverae wrote:
does anyone have any tips or tricks regarding writing multi-mailclient-compatible e-mails
Yes: plain text. Why send a background image with an e-mail? Utter waste of storage and bandwidth.
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Eaverae wrote:
does anyone have any tips or tricks regarding writing multi-mailclient-compatible e-mails
Yes: plain text. Why send a background image with an e-mail? Utter waste of storage and bandwidth.
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If you've got a company with many employees, the additional burden on your infrastructure will not be insignificant.
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Yeah they might have wanted to alter that beforehand.. :P Anyway, they do make a point though, e-mail rendering in outlook is a b*tch. Being a Microsoft fanboy myself, I think they could at least have considered putting parallel rendering options in Outlook 2010 after the thrash-talk the 2007 release has endured on this particular topic. Shouldn't development of e-mail move forward instead of backwards in time?
Eaverae wrote:
Shouldn't development of e-mail move forward instead of backwards in time?
How exactly is HTML/CSS rendering of e-mail "moving forward"? It's e-mail, not web pages. Making it more like web pages is moving in the wrong direction. But, of course, it's The Only Way To Go because Microsofts not doing it that way.
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