M$ and HTML emails

	Home Register Search Help Login

Sponsors
Frontpage website templates
Creative Website Templates for FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Flash, SwishMax
Shopping Cart Software
Ecommerce software integrated into Frontpage, Dreamweaver and Golive templates. No monthly fees and available in ASP and PHP versions.
Website Templates
We also have a wide selection of Dreamweaver, Expression Web and Frontpage templates as well as webmaster tools and CSS layouts.

Recent Posts
Todays Posts
Most Active posts
Posts since last visit
My Recent Posts
Mark posts read

M$ and HTML emails

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >> Web Development >> Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility >> M$ and HTML emails

Page: [1]


Tailslide Posts: 6758 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	M$ and HTML emails - 1/21/2007 3:50:33 Oh dear - just read this: Microsoft makes accessible ... HTML emails impossible I only set up emails for clients using Plain Text however I'm sure that there are quite a few people out there that would like to set up HTML emails etc. Well you won't be able to do it using CSS - only tables etc fairly soon.. Another stunning victory for M$ in the PR and accessibility stakes! _____________________________ Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Land Rover project


Nicole Posts: 2992 Joined: 9/15/2004 From: Sydney, Australia Status: offline	RE: M$ and HTML emails - 1/21/2007 4:57:58 But the strongest arguement against this, I think, is that many people turn off images in emails, and EVERYONE is going to want their logo in their emails, meaning that you'll get a box with a red X in it mostly. To many people, I believe, seeing an empty box with an X in it signals "junk", so they are less likely to read it. _____________________________ ". . . and God created man in his image." errr, shouldn't that be "and man created God in his image'? (in reply to Tailslide)


womble Posts: 6283 Joined: 3/14/2005 From: Living on the edge Status: offline	RE: M$ and HTML emails - 1/21/2007 7:02:44 quote: It’s a fascinating move by Microsoft, and I can’t help asking myself a few questions. Why does Microsoft seemingly hate everybody who works in the Web industry so much? Why does Microsoft keep coming up with new ways of making our jobs harder? Is it because the Web makes it possible to run applications on any operating system? Because many Web designers and developers use Macs? Whatever the reason, it sure isn’t going to make them any new friends among Web professionals. sigh Couldn't have put it better myself. M$ - One Step Forward and Several Hundred Back _____________________________ ~~ "A cruel god ain't no god at all" ~~ ~~ Erase hate. Practice love. ~~ (in reply to Nicole)


mtfm Posts: 426 Joined: 1/13/2006 From: Mesa, AZ Status: offline	RE: M$ and HTML emails - 1/30/2007 11:26:50 What the....? How....? why...? oh, nevermind. (in reply to womble)


jaybee Posts: 14442 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: M$ and HTML emails - 1/30/2007 12:53:57 Oh for......!!!!! quote: I know for sure that I will not even attempt to create any more HTML emails. Next time a client requests it I will try to convince them to use text-only, and if that fails let somebody who does nothing but design HTML email take care of the dirty work. I’m done. Me too. My last client who had a mailer running on their server has now been sent to a professional mailing company and they run all their campaigns through them. I don't touch them any more and took great delight in deleting PHPList from the host along with a stonking great 20, 000 name database. It really isn't worth the hassle. The work involved setting it all up only to find the host won't allow more than 100 mails per hour to go out, so you have to throttle the whole thing. Then it takes a week to process, during which time, said client has decided there was a mistake in email one so kicks off another which either breaks the throttle or queues and then continues processing for 2 weeks. Users don't read the unsubscribe bit of the email properly and even though they subscribed in the first place, decide to report it as spam so the host gets blacklisted. Aaaaargh, Nightmare. _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to mtfm)