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New Outlook Won't Use IE To Render HTML

Posted by kdawson on from the 7-years-back dept.

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."

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  1. I think there's a bigger problem. by Colin+Smith · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That'd be that there are "email designers"...

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  2. If this means by WhatDoIKnow · · Score: 1, Redundant

    it will become harder for others to send me megabyte emails whose only content is a meeting time and date, I'm all for it.

    :wq

  3. Don't care because... by eagl · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I don't care because the only "designed" email I get is sent from spammers or has a virus/trojan attached.

    If MS chose to toss out html email entirely and go to either plain or rich text, that would also be just fine with me, because I don't remember hearing about anyone having their computer taken over by security holes a text file and notepad. If this switch enhances security, then that's great too.