Outlook 2007 panned by Email developer

Dave Greiner said that the move to stop using Internet Explorer to render HTML emails and shift to the Word rendering engine in Outlook 2007 was disastrous.

He said that the change will put the development of email back five years. It means no background images, poor background colour, no support for float or position and terrible box model support, he said.

Greiner added that previously it was possible to send a HTML email in the comfort that the majority of recipients would have good CSS support. Now that cannot be done and there would always be the fear that graphically based email would look like pants when it arrived.

While the changes don't spell the end for HTML email, it just takes us back five years where tables and nasty inline CSS was the norm., Greiner added.

If Vole had done this with IE users, there would be a mass revolt from web designers, but for some reason it thinks it can get away with it with email designers, he said. µ

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