[pembrook]

It’s great outlook is finally ditching the 90s MS Word html rendering engine, but of course most big orgs do not update to the latest version for years.

So we’re still many years away from being able to finally dump tables.

And there’s still Gmail, which is also a giant pain-in-the-arse with basic things like media queries.

Then of course there’s the real question, what the hell is the point anyways? 82% of emails are primarily opened on mobile now (and a huge chunk on dark mode). Yet, hilariously, you go to sites like reallygoodemails.com and you see mini-desktop websites that mostly nobody will ever see in that format.

Why waste developer hours building mini-websites for a medium that is fundamentally ephemeral?

[oezi]

With the Office365 improvements (in particular to Excel) in recent years I would have assumed that many orgs are on the update channels for Office rather than doing manual rollouts.

[denton-scratch]

> fundamentally ephemeral

I've had bosses that required their mail system (supported by me) to retain essentially all of their inbound and outbound email indefinitely. Many mobile devices seem to have merged email and messaging; messaging may be ephemeral, but email isn't the same as messaging.