Comments on: HTML Email is hard to get right http://www.lshift.net/blog/2006/07/18/html-email-is-hard-to-get-right What happens at LShift Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:48:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: tonyg http://www.lshift.net/blog/2006/07/18/html-email-is-hard-to-get-right#comment-108445 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:46:47 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2006/07/18/html-email-is-hard-to-get-right#comment-108445 <p>((I accidentally deleted a bunch of comments I didn't mean to delete today, so I'm having to repost them manually:))</p> <p>mikeb wrote:</p> <p>@Matthew: the XSLT is from our domain model to a very simple MIME-container + HTML model; the actual assembly of the MIME message is done in Scheme. The XSLT really just lets us apply the style attribute consistently.</p> ((I accidentally deleted a bunch of comments I didn’t mean to delete today, so I’m having to repost them manually:))

mikeb wrote:

@Matthew: the XSLT is from our domain model to a very simple MIME-container + HTML model; the actual assembly of the MIME message is done in Scheme. The XSLT really just lets us apply the style attribute consistently.

]]> by: tonyg http://www.lshift.net/blog/2006/07/18/html-email-is-hard-to-get-right#comment-108444 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:46:21 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2006/07/18/html-email-is-hard-to-get-right#comment-108444 <p>((I accidentally deleted a bunch of comments I didn't mean to delete today, so I'm having to repost them manually:))</p> <p>Matthew Sherborne wrote:</p> <p>I’ve just been through the same exercise. Could I get a copy of your XSLT sheet please :)</p> ((I accidentally deleted a bunch of comments I didn’t mean to delete today, so I’m having to repost them manually:))

Matthew Sherborne wrote:

I’ve just been through the same exercise. Could I get a copy of your XSLT sheet please :)

]]> by: mikeb http://www.lshift.net/blog/2006/07/18/html-email-is-hard-to-get-right#comment-5215 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:25:25 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2006/07/18/html-email-is-hard-to-get-right#comment-5215 <p>http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StyleInEmail is the best summary I've seen of what email clients can and will do with HTML emails (and it's recent).</p> <p>It's worth stating that our problem was mainly with making the emails work perfectly in one email client, rather than good-enough in all clients---in the latter case, this followup to an AListApart article http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2005/08/optimizing<em>css</em>1.html is a handy reference also.</p> http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StyleInEmail is the best summary I’ve seen of what email clients can and will do with HTML emails (and it’s recent).

It’s worth stating that our problem was mainly with making the emails work perfectly in one email client, rather than good-enough in all clients—in the latter case, this followup to an AListApart article http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2005/08/optimizingcss1.html is a handy reference also.

]]> by: Paul Crowley http://www.lshift.net/blog/2006/07/18/html-email-is-hard-to-get-right#comment-5198 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:23:28 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2006/07/18/html-email-is-hard-to-get-right#comment-5198 <p>I have my email client configured to block remote image loading for security reasons - it gives others a way to see when you're reading their email. In particular, I don't want spammers to be able to tune their subject lines to maximize the probability that I'll read their email, which they can otherwise do using "web bugs". So your last solution won't reliably work either - sorry!</p> I have my email client configured to block remote image loading for security reasons - it gives others a way to see when you’re reading their email. In particular, I don’t want spammers to be able to tune their subject lines to maximize the probability that I’ll read their email, which they can otherwise do using “web bugs”. So your last solution won’t reliably work either - sorry!

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