[thelist] HTML E-mails and Outlook
Juha Suni
juha.suni at ilmiantajat.fi
Tue Oct 11 10:10:39 CDT 2005
Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:
> We've got this HTML e-mail we send out to those who request a
> service, and it uses CSS image
> replacement techniques. When opened in Outlook, you end up seeing
> both the image AND the text in
> the tag, so it looks quite garbled.
>
> I had assumed Outlook used IE's rendering engine, but is that not the
> case? This supposedly is the
> same code used on the related web site that works just fine, but
> breaks in the email.
Outlook, as well as other email clients have very different, weird and even
questionable ways to render and mangle html/css emails.
A very nice article about the subject can be found at A List Apart:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssemail
HTH
--
Suni
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