Ted Roche wrote:
> Heads up to those of you foolish enough to send HTML email. Outlook
> 2007 uses less components of IE and more components of Word for
> rendering and editing emails, resulting in changing behavior.
>
> "Asked about the controversial move, Chris Capossela, who manages the
> Microsoft Office System family of products, admitted that "in Office
> 2007, by default, when you write or read an e-mail in Outlook, we are
> using Word as the underlying engine for that.""
>
> "The solution? Use Microsoft's Outlook 2007 HTML and CSS validator
> tool, "to tell you which parts of your lean, mean HTML e-mails need to
> be replaced with old-fashioned HTML sludge. "
>
> We love standards. That's why there are so many.
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2088905,00.asp
>
>
Carl posted that on VFUG earlier today, too. Here's the part I laughed
about:
[However, while Microsoft acknowledges in the document that there are
some HTML and CSS attributes that are not currently supported by Word's
rendering engine, it says "the capabilities that our customers most
wanted for their HTML newsletters are supported by Outlook 2007."]
My comment was that this is M$'s way of saying "FU, you critics." But
then again, you can't please everybody. ;-)
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