Comments on: The Email Standards Project Launches http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/11/29/the-email-standards-project-launches/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:23:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eyespi20 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/11/29/the-email-standards-project-launches/comment-page-1/#comment-547524 Eyespi20 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:31:53 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/11/29/the-email-standards-project-launches/#comment-547524 Well, as someone who writes OE scripts that incorporate a lot of hacky things to make them work, I would love a standards html compliant email! I know that these are considered "fluff" by many and that's OK -- to each his own. Margaret Well, as someone who writes OE scripts that incorporate a lot of hacky things to make them work, I would love a standards html compliant email! I know that these are considered “fluff” by many and that’s OK — to each his own.

Margaret

]]> By: AussieJohn http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/11/29/the-email-standards-project-launches/comment-page-1/#comment-540412 AussieJohn Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:45:01 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/11/29/the-email-standards-project-launches/#comment-540412 Standards for HTML emails are <strong>definitely</strong> a necessity. As a web developer who also builds a lot of HTML emails, I know how hard it is to come up with something that works in the majority of mail clients (because, lets face it, unless you build an email consisting of plain <h1>'s and <p>'s it's likely it will not look the same in every client). Especially now that a wonderful new email client has come on the market since recent - I'm talking about Outlook 2007 of course - that uses the Microsoft Word rendering engine, we are pretty much forced to go back to very basic email design if we choose to support this client (I'm avoiding "officially" supporting it for as long as possible). I'm heading over to email-standards.org and I'm going to bookmark the hell out of it! Standards for HTML emails are definitely a necessity. As a web developer who also builds a lot of HTML emails, I know how hard it is to come up with something that works in the majority of mail clients (because, lets face it, unless you build an email consisting of plain <h1>’s and <p>’s it’s likely it will not look the same in every client).

Especially now that a wonderful new email client has come on the market since recent – I’m talking about Outlook 2007 of course – that uses the Microsoft Word rendering engine, we are pretty much forced to go back to very basic email design if we choose to support this client (I’m avoiding “officially” supporting it for as long as possible).

I’m heading over to email-standards.org and I’m going to bookmark the hell out of it!

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