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The Email Standards Project: Moderating the Email Wars
In the interview with David Greiner that we published today, I asked him about the forthcoming organisation that he and the Freshview team were forming to establish a baseline of standards support in email clients.
Dave divulged that the domain for this group would be email-standards.org, and that the first incarnation of the site for this organisation would appear in the next month or so.
So far the Email Standards Project (I’m assuming that’s what it will be called*, although the acronym ESP already stands for a heap of other things) have stated that they plan to:
- Establish a baseline of standards that senders of HTML email need supported in email
- Document the important changes each of the major email client manufacturers need to make in order to support web and related standards (Dave gave me a demo of the paid service that they will be adding to their Campaign Monitor product to facilitate this)
- Create a simple acid test that makes it easy to see if an email client supports this baseline, much like WaSP’s Acid2 test.
Web browsers have come a long way, and the Web is a whole lot better for it; the email wars, however, are only just beginning.
*I thought it …
How green can you be?
Working in the web industry, electricity is the cornerstone of everything we do. There is no physical alternative, no part of our job which is free of energy consumption. On our own computers, our offices and homes, our servers, we spend all our time pushing electrons around. But the availability of renewable energy sources is sadly limited, and so inevitably, some or all of what we do involves the consumption of non-renewable energy and the further production of greenhouse gases, contributing to the steady destruction of our environment.
Wouldn’t it be so convenient if there was an easy way to reduce our carbon footprint without having to change our patterns of consumption..?
Hmm.
Over the last few months I’ve become increasingly unsettled by the growth in prominence and respect for carbon-offsetting schemes. It seems like everyone and his dog is buying carbon credits, believing that by doing so they are helping the environment and reducing their carbon footprint.
Not so.
When large corporations peddle such stuff it doens’t surprise me; large corporations are like politicians — they say what people want to hear, whether or not they believe it, and whether or not it’s true. But when home-grown ventures like the Web Directions Conference start …
WDS07 Bonus Feature: Chris Wilson (Microsoft)
At Web Directions South 2007 in Sydney this week, I caught up with Chris Wilson, the Platform Architect for Internet Explorer at Microsoft. Chris has been building web browsers for as long as there have been web browsers, and it was a pleasure to sit down with him at the end of the final day of the conference.
In his talk at the conference, “Moving the Web Forward”, Chris gave the audience a glimpse into the realities of developing the most popular web browser in the world. With over 500,000,000 users to answer to, the words “Don’t break the Web” have become an overriding mantra for the company in its work to develop the next version of Internet Explorer (currently known as IE.Next).
I took the opportunity to ask Chris a few of the questions that were at the top of my mind following his presentation:
Kevin Yank
“Your team is building a whole new rendering engine for the next version of IE.”
Chris Wilson
“What we’re actually focused on right now is specifically the layout engine part of that. The part that figures out how to lay out text content, …
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