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August 08, 2008 3:22pm
Subscribe [1]#1 / Aug 08, 2008 3:22pm
It’s no secret how I feel about HTML emails. If I could wipe them off of the face of the earth by pressing a button, I’d press the button. But alas, many of our users, or more specifically, their clients, the end users, rely on HTML email. For better or worse, it’s still a common means of communicating with some sites’ audiences, and in some cases can be effective. The August 8th, 2008 build of ExpressionEngine should make those of you that fall into this camp quite happy.
#2 / Aug 08, 2008 5:30pm
I’d push that button too… probably more than once, just to make sure that ALL were wiped out!
Honestly, when I have to build an HTML e-mail at work, I bust open Dreamweaver’s WYSIWYG mode and just throw all cares of code quality and standards out the window. It’s really the only thing you can do in the situation if you want somewhat consistent results… I suppose it’s the same idea as lowest common denominator… you’re just going for the lowest acceptable quality 😊
Good post… always fun to hear how these things make others’ lives difficult too.
#3 / Aug 08, 2008 8:52pm
It’s different standards/products that are to blame really.. Don’t get me wrong, they exist so things can continue to improve, instead of letting one company sit with all the rights and never improving on it, but its a pain for regular users. Its the same deal as xbox vs ps3 vs wii vs pc. Good for competition, so microsoft/nintendo/sony/other pc companies can’t make a monopoly out of, for example, the gaming marked, determining what games/developers make it or not for their platform..
..But for developers its a pain in the butt because you need to either pick one, pick some or try and cover all platforms when developing something like a game… And for users, buying a pc, wii, xbox 360 and ps3 +++ get’s horribly expensive. Same goes with different web standards, email standards etc. Covering them all, as we all know, ends up in small and big bugs everywhere (damn pesky bugs! *waves hand*), more development time, more ground to cover when learning about the different standards, trying to fix standards that goes against each other etc..
So good, yet so evil >)
#4 / Aug 14, 2008 12:17pm
And then MS comes along with Outlook 2007 which throws everyone back ten years by using the HTML rendering engine of…..WORD. Talk about fubar.