Nathan,
I think you are slightly missing the point, I for one don't care too
hoots if microsoft uses its own rendering engine or not. All I care is
that they use one that works and I think this is the main point of the
campaign. I pretty much left web design a few years back because I
hated the lack of cross-browser compatibility, but the issues with
email clients are even worse - some don't support background images,
or even css.
Andy
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On 24 Jun 2009, at 22:57, Nathan de Vries wrote:
On 24/06/2009, at 9:58 PM, Matthew Pennell wrote:
This is so stupid - the reason that Outlook uses Word instead of a
decent rendering engine is because of the same standards advocates
complaining so much about IE6 being bundled with Windows! You can't
have your cake and eat it too...
You seem very sure of yourself on this one, but wasn't Office 2007
launched at the same time as Windows Vista which included IE7 at
that time? Also, if an developer wants to use embedded IE within
their application they can bundle the version they'd like to use.
Why is Microsoft any different?
I agree with you that Microsoft not being allowed to package their
own browser with their operating system is a farce, but it's a bit
of a stretch to say that it's driven their decision to switch to
using Word as the rendering engine for Outlook.
Cheers,
Nathan de Vries
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