[ivanhoe]

Competition is good, but competition creates segmentation, and with mail clients it's already far more crazy than browsers ever were. There are huge differences even between the different versions of the same client, especially across the different platforms - and people still use some really old Outlooks, so you can't ignore them. I've been doing web dev for a long time, ever since the IE4 (there was still NN back then), so I've been through all the craziness of the browser differences, but this is far worse as many clients are rewriting the html and limitations are super strict, you have to inline everything and use all kinds of css hacks.