Outlook crippled? Microsoft takes email design back 5 years

[Guest]

Why should I buy Office/oulook 2007 if it breaks my emaillayout?

A question in the forum about not seeing any background images in outlook
2007 gave us this comment:

Outlook 2003 uses IE to render the HTML. Outlook 2007 uses Word 2007 and
Word doesn't render HTML in the same way. I read an article yesterday that
indicates that the background attribute is ignored, at least in some cases.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338200.aspx
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WTF? nice validator. But this is ofcourse the world up side down.

it's not only background images its much MUCH MORE !

It is not the world which should conform to MS Word / Oulook 2007. I
predict major troubles for MS.

I have info for you why this will happen. I cannot say it in better words
then this guy.

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/01/microsoft_takes_email_design_b.html


I'm not trying to bash MS but I cannot understand that MS cripples a fine
product (one of the best) like outlook.


Sincerely
Edward

 

[Gordon]

Why should I buy Office/oulook 2007 if it breaks my emaillayout?

A question in the forum about not seeing any background images in outlook

I'm VERY glad I DON'T receive email from you. cos you would go straight into
my killfile - I personally don't WANT to receive emails full of crap...

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You seem to overlook one very important aspect; emails are not websites and
should be treated in a very different way.

Funny that you reference that article on Campaign monitor. If you read up on
that website a little more you'll see that they get back from that initial
conclusion and do a proper reference as to what mail clients (both web based
and client based) support. You'll see that Outlook is the least of your
worries.

 

[Guest]

Outlook < 2007 was very good at html rendering. It's simply is downgraded in
html functionality.

A lot of clients need new templates because paddings and margins won't work
any more.

What's next?

Can you imagine that chief outlook needs a new HTML rendering engine (why?
probably security or something) and he chooses the one from Word ! If the
mozilla rendering is much better.

 

[Guest]

Do you think clients really think like you?

I'm VERY glad I DON'T receive email from you. cos you would go straight into
my killfile - I personally don't WANT to receive emails full of crap...

 

[Gordon]

Do you think clients really think like you?

Certainly.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Email is not about rendering HTML but about transferring information. Emails
are also more used as documents than as web pages. Using the features of
Word instead of Internet Explorer makes much more sense.

Additional benefit for your clients;
They can now simply use a Word template for their email and don't have to
create and maintain separate HTML and Word templates depending whether they
are going to send it as an email of as a letter.