Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Wed Aug 12 16:43:01 CDT 2009
HTML and email are not a happy a marriage. Many email programs don't use a browser to render it, they have their own engine. And don't get started on the cr*p HTML that we get from people who use MS Word as their Outlook editor - It's no surprise that a lot of it doesn't render properly. On 12 Aug 2009 at 16:00, jwcolby wrote: > >> The point is, things are significantly better now with modern browsers. Your development > experience back then does not have to be repeated today. > > And MY point is that "significantly better" can still be pretty screwy. > > I use Blockbuster. They mail me disks and I mail them back. They email me "we sent you" and "we > received" kinds of emails as they ship and receive the disks. > > Those emails were working just fine, suddenly they are rendering as the "outlines" of where there > should be little pictures. BUT... NOT ALWAYS. Some emails render correctly, some don't. It > APPEARS to be something they are doing on their end, something that they insert into the page to be > rendered because I can go back to emails in the beginning and they ALL render correctly. >