Actually Russ, 2007 and 2010 use word. They stopped using IE with Outlook 2003...
As taken from the article below: "Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 uses the HTML parsing and rendering engine from Microsoft Office Word 2007 to display HTML message bodies. The same HTML and cascading style sheets (CSS) support available in Word 2007 is available in Outlook 2007." http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201(v=office.12).aspx Ken Sent from Apple MobileMe On Apr 5, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Russ Michaels <r...@michaels.me.uk> wrote: > > Outlook 2007 actually does a very good job of rendering HTML emails as it > uses IE to do the job. Outlook 2010 is the problem as they switched to using > the word html rendering engine. > However you need to remember that HTML emails are not rendered the same in > all email clients, so you need to keep it as simple as possible and only do > things that will work in most email clients. > There are a number of sites out there which give you a matrix of which > tags/CSS rules work and which don't in which email client, if you google the > topic you will get plenty of results. > > There is also www.campaignmonitor.com which has built in emulators to show > you how your email will look in all the major clients. > > Russ > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:26 PM, <jqdur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Outlook's HTML rendering engine is garbage. Copy/paste the HTML into Word, >> tweak it and copy/paste the source back into your app. It isn't pretty. >> >> >> http://blogs.sitepoint.com/microsoft-breaks-html-email-rendering-in-outlook/ >> >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338200.aspx >> >> >> On Apr 5, 2011 3:16pm, Ken Hammond <khamm...@saleminc.com> wrote: >> >> >>> I am having the hardest time with outlook 2007 and html/css... If I use a >> >>> smaller font (say 6px-8px) for a command it sits the text right next >> >>> to it, it won't even superscript it. So... I increase the size to >> >>> accommodate that then other mail clients have a HUGE superscripted >>> services >> >>> mark (sm).... >> >> >> >>> Anyone else have these problems? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:343568 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
