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This gravely scares me...

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:36 am
by seodevhead
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

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:40 am
by Luke
that's disgusting. :? :evil:

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:40 am
by neophyte
WOW! That's lame. Designing html email was already a pain in the neck... To go backwards and not forwards in technology is even worse. It's probably to satisfy crabby office ladies need to design emails in word.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:54 am
by matthijs
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.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:15 pm
by Luke
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:
It's probably to satisfy crabby office ladies need to design emails in word.
But why not make things easier for everybody and make Word use IE as its renderer??

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:42 pm
by m3mn0n
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:
It's probably to satisfy crabby office ladies need to design emails in word.
But why not make things easier for everybody and make Word use IE as its renderer??
Exactly.

Horrible move.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:31 pm
by neophyte
Developers! Developers! Developers! @#$!#@

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:35 pm
by Luke
neophyte wrote:Developers! Developers! Developers! @#$!#@
yea... developers developers developers... we love developers... YEA OK. :roll:

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:43 pm
by daedalus__
Considering all the wonderful 'advancements' Microsoft is making in it's products lately, I'll be surprised if they last through the next 10 years.

Disgusting.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:10 pm
by timvw
What scares me most is the fact that people actually use Faultlook...

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:32 pm
by seodevhead
timvw wrote:What scares me most is the fact that people actually use Faultlook...
What is the "pro's" choice these days for email client apps? I switched over to thunderbird a while back but moved back over to Outlook after having some problems. Any suggestions?

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:39 pm
by Luke
I use outlook at work because that's what everybody else uses... for my personal email... GMail all the way. It's awesome.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:48 pm
by seodevhead
The Ninja Space Goat wrote:for my personal email... GMail all the way. It's awesome.
But you can't set up POP3's and all that fancy jazz with gmail can you?

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:09 pm
by Kieran Huggins
I'm pretty sure you can have pop3 with gmail, both ways.

I use Thunderbird 2 beta - It solved a lot of the issues I had with 1.5x... Try it!

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:10 pm
by Luke
don't need all that fancy jazz (nor was I aware it didn't have it). I use personal email for sending/receiving email. I need to be able to do that easily and intuitively and be able to search my email easily. Gmail nails all of those.