Use of Markup and CSS in emails

Hi

Designing a fancy "newsletter" for a webmail should be straight forward as
the markup and CSS should work accordingly to the browser used for the
email.
But what about installable email clients like MS Outlook and MS Outlook
Express? I would assume those two would use the IE rendering engine.Any
hints or references to ressources regarding this?
But what about all the other installable clients? (Both for MS Win, MacOS
and Linux)
Should I just keep it simple or go quirky mode?
Would it be fine to use nested tables?
What are your thoughts and experience regarding this?

/Michael

In article <47ad6e9e$0$2091$edfadb0f (AT) dtext02 (DOT) news.tele.dk>,
"Michael Andersen" <kingscreadle (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hi

Designing a fancy "newsletter" for a webmail should be straight forward as
the markup and CSS should work accordingly to the browser used for the
email.
But what about installable email clients like MS Outlook and MS Outlook
Express? I would assume those two would use the IE rendering engine.Any
hints or references to ressources regarding this?
But what about all the other installable clients? (Both for MS Win, MacOS
and Linux)
Should I just keep it simple or go quirky mode?
Would it be fine to use nested tables?
What are your thoughts and experience regarding this?

For what it is worth, I have had excellent (100%) results with my
clients taking my advice when they ask about a newsletter and
email.

I tell them I will make them a nice set of webpages with their
newsletter, put it on their server and they can just put a link
to it in their emails. It is a win win win win situation.

They do as little as possible by just sending me the text and
pics.

Their clients are happy because they are seeing the newsletter in
a browser (a device that is designed from top to bottom for
exhibiting html markup).

The heavily used limited capacity email network is saved
unnecessary strain ...

What was the fourth win? O yes, I get a bit more dough (do you
have any idea how much it costs in petrol to run my Ford XY?)

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dorayme

Michael Andersen wrote:

Designing a fancy "newsletter" for a webmail should be straight forward as
the markup and CSS should work accordingly to the browser used for the
email.

You'd think that's how it would turn out, but that's not the case. I've
seen surprisingly bad results in comcast web mail, for example, because
of the way they handle web mail. The browser is irrelevant.

But what about installable email clients like MS Outlook and MS Outlook
Express? I would assume those two would use the IE rendering engine.

Again, not necessarily true. Outlook 2007 does not use IE7, but the
pitiful Office built-in browser. I used to have a bookmark to an article
about this, but seem to have lost it.

Any
hints or references to ressources regarding this?
Should I just keep it simple or go quirky mode?
Would it be fine to use nested tables?

If you're going to send HTML email, the simpler the better. Nested
tables are definitely out. I think there' an article at A List Apart
about html email that's worth a read.

What are your thoughts and experience regarding this?

My thoughts are that HTML email sucks. Don't do it if there is an
alternative.

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Berg

Bergamot wrote:

If you're going to send HTML email, the simpler the better. Nested
tables are definitely out. I think there' an article at A List Apart
about html email that's worth a read.

I'd like to read this article, but searching A List Apart for "HTML" and
"E-mail" isn't likely to narrow the search much. Can you provide further
information on the article?

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David
Stardate 8117.4

David Trimboli wrote:

Bergamot wrote:

I think there' an article at A List Apart
about html email that's worth a read.

I'd like to read this article, but searching A List Apart for "HTML" and
"E-mail" isn't likely to narrow the search much. Can you provide further
information on the article?

A search for some other terms came up with
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StyleInEmail

It's a few years old, but at the bottom of the page are links to other
articles on the subject.

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Berg