Comments on: Conditional Comments for HTML Email

By: brothercake

brothercake — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:05:27 +0000

Just because a statement is cynical, doesn’t mean it’s not true ;) Of course OOXML is Microsoft ratifying their own proprietary format as a standard, which is why it was initially rejected, and why it should never have been accepted. The whole thing smells bad to me.

By: steve j

steve j — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:10:48 +0000

The ‘o’ refers to ‘office’ not just ‘outlook’. If you save Word or Excel docs as ‘Web page’ you’ll see the same kind of thing.
Across versions of Microsoft Office (since Office2000) MS has been changing the markup formats its apps use. They are largely incompatible with one another. The conditionals help sort out differences mainly to assist with interoperability of documents among versions of MSOffice (and IE).
A cynic might say that OOXML is Microsoft’s attempt to set a standard for itself.

By: randywehrs

randywehrs — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:44:31 +0000

Greater Than or Equal to MicroSoft Outlook 9

Ah, it almost makes too much sense.. I’m still quite surprised that it works. Many many kudos to James Edwards and Sitepoint! My boss came back to me and asked me how I got this to work. Keep the .html email stuff coming!!

By: AlexW

AlexW — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:26:46 +0000

This is a huge help! I’ve tried conditional comments to target different email clients to no avail, but never would have tried “gte mso 9“. What does this mean?

Greater Than or Equal to MicroSoft Outlook 9

By: Brent Edwards

Brent Edwards — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:25:49 +0000

Brothercake: Get rid of Opera!!!

By: randywehrs

randywehrs — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:32:51 +0000

This is a huge help! I’ve tried conditional comments to target different email clients to no avail, but never would have tried “gte mso 9“. What does this mean?

By: Dave Greiner

Dave Greiner — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:03:30 +0000

Nice one guys, this could really make life easier those (too frequent) occasions when Outlook 2007 won’t play ball. We did some additional testing on this method and wrote about the results on our blog.

By: Black Max

Black Max — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:23:03 +0000

>>Outlook — no longer uses Internet Explorer for HTML rendering, it uses Word!

I knew there was another reason why I won’t use Outlook. Don’t use Word, either. Wish I didn’t use Windows.

By: brothercake

brothercake — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:32:09 +0000

Yeah I know they are a little out of whack in opera (because like you, i live and breathe in opera :)) but they weren’t really targetted at web browsers - there’s only so many client environments one can deal with at a time :)

By: Tyssen

Tyssen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:14:23 +0000

Hmmm, I’ve just come back to the page again and I can see the CC now. Not sure what was going on before. :/