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Outlook 07 Preview and Code Analysis Update

11.22.2009

We are excited to announce that we have recently made some drastic improvements to our Outlook 07 preview. We are hoping that this will give developers a better understanding of how to design and construct HTML and CSS emails that comply with Outlook's often frustrating MS Word engine.

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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.

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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!

Hotmail Style Preview

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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.

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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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