New Outlook Won't Use IE To Render HTML

loconet writes to tell us about a little surprise coming in Outlook 2007: it will render HTML email using the MS Word engine, dropping the use of IE for this purpose. This represents a body-check to the movement towards Web standards. Whatever you think about HTML email, lots of it gets generated, and those generating it won't be able to use CSS any more, and may stop pushing for more widespread standards support. The announcement was made on MSDN. From the Campaign Monitor post: "Imagine for a second that the new version of IE7 killed off the majority of CSS support and only allowed table based layouts. The web design world would be up in arms! Well, that's exactly what the new version of Outlook does to email designers."

Comments

Email designers?

[Legion303]

Fuck email designers. Use text like everyone else, you latte-slurping assholes.

Re:It's about storage space.

[1u3hr]

You've obviously never worked in marketing. Marketing is all about that first impression.

We know why you want to do it. That's why we hate you and wish you would just die. It's cunts like you that lobby to prevent any laws being made to stop spam, because it might be used against you, and cunts like you that push email clients to send and display HTML in all its glory.

Re:It's about storage space.

[PopeRatzo]

"You've obviously never worked in marketing." - Gryffin

You are effing-A RIGHT I never worked in marketing. I never worked in prostitution or drug-dealing either, which I consider to be similar fields of endeavor.

They have in common with marketing that they promise what they don't deliver or what they deliver isn't good for you.

"I know this is Slashdot, where alpha *nix geeks prefer editing text files to using a GUI, and design and typography are considered just useless fluff. But in the Real World, appearances do matter. If your message is pleasant to the eye, it's more likely to be read. Even better if it grabs attention, compelling the user to look. ASCII text doesn't have that sort of impact; HTML can, if done right." - Gryffin

I am a visual artist and I can barely find my way in "*nix" without a GUI. I appreciate design and typography as much as anyone. I just appreciate it more in a web page than my email Inbox coming from little smarmy marketing turds like you.

You're also a condescending bastard aren't you. How about I market my size 12 hushpuppie up your flabby behind?

Re:It's about storage space.

[x2A]

Yeah, cuz everyone's like you, and nothing exists outside the tiny world you can imagine. Yes, spam is the most annoying and morally corrupt form of marketing, but if that's really the only use you can imagine, I'd start asking questions about why you can't think of anything else, what effect that's likely to have on you and the decisions you make, and the limitations on your personality it's likely to have.