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by denton-scratch
1163 days ago
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Most of these "problems" with email seem to arise from problems with the big online mail "clients", like gmail. I didn't notice Thunderbird in their list of email clients (I use Thunderbird). I deplore HTML-formatted email anyway. The last time I had to generate HTML-formatted email, the main problem MUA was Microsoft Outlook; I didn't realize that the problem was that Outlook used Microsoft Word's HTML renderer (TIL). I've always hated HTML-formatted email anyway, so jumping through the various hoops to generate HTML email automatically was a real drag. The article's focus on the wonders of AMP as a solution is scary. AMP is a Google-controlled technology, widely-despised. Making AMP the solution to HTML email looks like a way of tightening Goo's already-tight grip on email's throat. [Edit] So now a properly-constructed HTML email becomes a multipart with a minimum of three parts: text/plain, HTML and AMP. I don't see this as a wonderful new world. |
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The big all-important thing is that the Microsoft Word styling is out. It hurts in _so_ many ways when making a mail to be sent via Mailchimp/Mandrill.
Tables is just the example which is easy to convey, something everybody understands. Explaining why a margin/padding/whatever working slightly differently in Microsoft Word (AKA Outlook) and gmail can ruin a few of your days is more difficult.
But probably anyone who has thought "I'll just insert this image here in this Word document, what is the worst that could happen" knows what I mean. Here's a "funny": https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2glhbp/moving_a_pict...
Making an email that retains the styling in both gmail and outlook, even when the customer replies to it, can be a major endeavor. It sounds like that is changing. Thank God.