Web Development on a Stick
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Feb
2007
Microsoft Breaks HTML Email Rendering in Outlook 2007
While the IE team was soothing the tortured souls of web developers everywhere with the new, more compliant Internet Explorer 7, the Office team pulled a fast one, ripping out the IE-based rendering engine that Outlook has always used for email, and replacing it with...drum roll please...Microsoft Word. Sitepoint Article >>
Here’s one I missed while my head was buried in recoding Boyink.com. Quite a strike against HTML email.
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Outlook HTML email, at least in 2003 & Outlook XP, seriously stinks anyway. I can never get any formatting to work right, it just doesn’t repond as you would expect. Sometimes, no matter how hard you click the buttons (oh, I’ve clicked pretty hard!), it just won’t change the font size or whatever. I haven’t a clue how to get to the actual code to see what it’s up to.
As far as I’m concerned, HTML email stinks, at least in Outlook (the only place I’ve tried it).