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by omnimus 700 days ago
They said email templates. That means no flex/grid/typefaces etc etc. emails are painful caveman html
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kdazzle 700 days ago
My favorite factoid is that Windows desktop Outlook uses the MS Word engine to render emails. If regular emails are caveman html (which they are), then I don't know what that makes Outlook html.
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legitster 700 days ago
Within the confines of Microsoft Office, it kinda makes sense.

You can copy+paste anything from any Office product and it will render in your email. It also makes doing mail merges much simpler.

So as a corporate email tool it's a smart idea. Making it harder for advertisers to design fancy emails is just an added perk.

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SpaceNugget 699 days ago
Fun fact: A factoid is something that seems like it could be a fact but is in fact false. I know it's commonly misused as a synonym of "fact" and I don't really care, it's evolving as a word and that's fine. But I really enjoy the sentence "Fun fact: A factoid is something that seems like it could be a fact but is in fact false." so I can't help but share :D
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kdazzle 699 days ago
You mean the definition of factoid (noun) isnt: little facty?!
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Terr_ 700 days ago
Neanderthal HTML? Some crossover, but mostly a distinct competing lineage?
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