VML

Notes from the Dev: How to Use Faux Absolute Positioning in Email

Here’s a tight spot that email developers will be very familiar with. You get an email campaign mockup from a designer and in order to make it both functional and accessible, you need to use overlapping elements. As developers, it’s our job to make the email look as close to the proposed design as possible. … Continue reading “Notes from the Dev: How to Use Faux Absolute Positioning in Email”

Vector Markup Language and Backgrounds

Backgrounds might seem like they should be a simple effect to achieve in HTML email, but that’s not always the case. Outlook 2007, 2010 and even 2013 will give users who rely on the body’s background-image property a lot of trouble. Because of these problems many have turned to Vector Markup Language (VML), part of the Office Open XML standards.

Read more about it in this blog.