Comments on: CSS & Email: The dirty little secret

By: joel

joel — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:55:40 +0000

Gee… it’s almost 2008 and still NO CSS support for in Hotmail or Gmail — I think I’ll go back to writing everything html 3.0 and code my websites in Basic or even better CPM (For us Commodore 64/128 Geeks)

By: Oron

Oron — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:09:00 +0000

"itâ€™s almost 2007 and here we are coding like itâ€™s 1997"

I actually said the exact same thing this week after coding a newsletter for one my clients. :)

great post kyle.

By: Lukas

Lukas — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:11:12 +0000

Yahoo is a little better, but seems not to apply background colors to cells.

All my invoices are completely gray. Sigh.

By: Lukas

Lukas — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:09:13 +0000

Great article.

It came to my attention recently when looking at our generated emails that GMail completely dropped out all - Style attributes.

I have been formating my emails for Outlook all this time, but now I see it was a mistake as I'll have to go back to the stone age when formatting emails.

By: David Salazar

David Salazar — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:10:17 +0000

It has been some time as you say from back in 1997 and MS doesn’t seem to “get the point” of moving towards the standard. ThankÂ´s for the HM insight, (do you have your source?)

Time will tell meanwhile keep on the good work.
Dave.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:34:39 +0000

Ben: Campaign monitor is an excellent app. One of the best webapps I've ever used, and by far the best email manager I've used.

By: Ben Lilley

Ben Lilley — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:23:13 +0000

I was excited when I read that email too..

Out of curosity what would you recommend as a good service to manage an email list and send out emails?

Cheers, Ben

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:31:20 +0000

I too was excited when I first read that CSS Emails were a possibility — until I started testing. Trying to come up with a cross-email-reader solution is by far the worst kind of testing I’ve ever had to do. From my personal experience, the best plan is to mark up in a way that degrades as gracefully as possible. Always be weary that 9 times out of 10 your reader won’t be able to view any images you’ve linked. Great reference article.

By: J. Arnor

J. Arnor — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:22:47 +0000

You’ve got to be kidding me?! Microsoft doing tech like it’s still 1997..? :P

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:19:55 +0000

Imagine that hotmail doesn't work. (sarcastic)

This is a great point about CSS emails. I would love to abandon table based layout altogether but between email newsletters and bad .net CMS's I feel like I'm moving backwards.

Thanks Kyle for point out GMail and Hotmail problems.