Email Standards Project
The Email Standards Project launched last week aiming to “work with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email”.
Only this week I have to admit that in order to produce email templates for three different UK charities I have had to use a mixture of table based layout and badly implemented inline CSS to produce anything close to a design that works across most major email clients.
I always feel very uneasy about working this way but ever since the problems forced upon us with Outlook 2007 I really haven’t had a choice… but hopefully this will now begin to change.
The Email Standards Project have compiled an overview of CSS support in all major browsers as well as an acid test for CSS support… hopefully this will now begin to improve standard support until web standards in email are as well supported as they are in the browser.
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