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@MrCSharp me too, what I did was fix it in a closed source thing and made a fix in the software for open-source email client.
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Email html is an ever changing maze.
Either o very simple or use a service that can afford to have people constantly tweaking and keeping up to date with the latest development in the area.
Used to work with an newsletter service and outlook has been the bane since 2007 (and in same cases since 2003)
But gmail has its own set of peculiarities, and then there is yahoo, hotmail, the bat (popular in germany) and ... -
@Voxera wait... Doesn't gmail, yahoo and so on, just use the browser's rendering engine?
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@HitWRight not quite, they do filter it before rendering to, among other, script tags and some css.
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@rant1ng yeah, if you want horizontal padding under MSO
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
Fucking outlook, can't even render simple html.
Our company wanted a custom newsletter to send to our clients. Before vacation I dropped a few guidelines to our designer, how our newsletter should look. 640px width, common fonts for everyone to render properly, stuff like that. To my fucking surprise they managed to create the most designed newsletter I've seen. Custom font, custom letter sizings, negative row gaps, pixel to pixel image locations. After writing custom html for it and managing to get all perfectly in 3 hours, to my surprise I found out, that outlook is broken. FML
Now everything must be redesigned and simplified, just because I was naive enough to think, that all mail clients manage to render simple HTML...
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