This gravely scares me...
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This gravely scares me...
It looks like Outlook 2007 is ditching IE7 as it's HTML rendering engine and using Word's engine instead...that's right... MS Word. Microsoft has successfully set Emails five years back.
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/arc ... ign_b.html
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/arc ... ign_b.html
Yeah I just read it today. It's unbelievable.
All the fuss about IE7 getting so standard-compliant, and then this. I cannot believe it. Word??? I hate those calls from clients when they have pasted some Word text into a HTML page and ask me why their page looks so funny... aaaargh.
I planned on doing more with html-Email, but I'm not so sure anymore. I like challenges, but hacking together tables and font-tags??
With this step they delay the progress of html-Email with 10 years.
All the fuss about IE7 getting so standard-compliant, and then this. I cannot believe it. Word??? I hate those calls from clients when they have pasted some Word text into a HTML page and ask me why their page looks so funny... aaaargh.
I planned on doing more with html-Email, but I'm not so sure anymore. I like challenges, but hacking together tables and font-tags??
With this step they delay the progress of html-Email with 10 years.
Microsoft just continues to give developers the finger and say "we're making things easy for our least tech savvy-users, no matter how difficult it makes your life". I understand this decision, this is spot on:
But why not make things easier for everybody and make Word use IE as its renderer??It's probably to satisfy crabby office ladies need to design emails in word.
Exactly.The Ninja Space Goat wrote:Microsoft just continues to give developers the finger and say "we're making things easy for our least tech savvy-users, no matter how difficult it makes your life". I understand this decision, this is spot on:But why not make things easier for everybody and make Word use IE as its renderer??It's probably to satisfy crabby office ladies need to design emails in word.
Horrible move.
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