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The Google Font API and HTML Email |
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05.24.2010 Google, in conjunction with Typekit, just released a new Font API that allows designers to easily import non-standard OS fonts into their web pages. The API uses the CSS @font-face rule but relies on their CDN to provide the data bandwidth, which is probably much faster than yours. After hearing about this we wanted to investigate and find out the email client support for such an API. Get connected with Email on Acid for up-to-date news and information on the subject of email design, development, and testing!
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The Best Strategies for Testing Your HTML Email
Although our email testing simulation is intended to make your life much easier, it is still vitally important to test your email in each of the popular web browsers as well.
In taking into account the complexity of testing your email, we must first consider the most popular email applications used today. Then we will take a look at web based email clients, and finally we will touch on ways to ensure that your email will render correctly on mobile devices.
The Mystery of Hotmail’s Strange Image Spacing
The Case of a Hidden Escape Character...
It's official, there's an invisible ghost haunting Hotmail and it had us spooked for over 3 days! OK so we don't mean Friday the 13th scary, but still scary to a programmer who doesn't see it coming!
Outlook 2010 Email Test Results are In
Microsoft Not Playing Nice with Office 2010
It doesn't appear that Microsoft is going to play nice with HTML rendering in Office 2010. They are continuing down the '07 path by using Word to render HTML. Are you surprised? Honestly, we aren't. We have recently received a beta version of Outlook 2010 and through our email tests we have noted the same rendering problems from Outlook 07.
Why Web Standards Matter for your Email
Until now, designing and developing HTML emails has been like trying to hit a moving target while blindfolded. Each of the email clients have different standards for how they accept and render standard HTML and CSS. nrfd7xvkgp
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