November 29, 2007

HTML Emails

It’s not exactly new news now - depsite only happening yesterday - but there’s a new standards movement in town: The Email Standards Project.

Depsite some of the biggest names in the industry having an unparralelled hatred of fancy emails, I’ve alway kind of liked them.

“But Emails are for plain text!!”, they wail.

So bloody what!

Letters were plain text until someone doodled in the margin aqnd we ended up with graphic design.

HTML wasn’t intended for graphics - look where that lead too.

So hoorah let’s make the email client devs change their shoddy ways and give us a nice consistent platform to work from!

(Though I don’t hold out much hope of Google, seeing as they only seem to employ people who have never heard of standards…)