The Underscore Archives

		Ray,
Firstly did you write Fungus the Bogeyman. I loved it.



> i hate html email as a rule but sometimes, i understand that directors
> have to see pretty pictures.


That's a fairly naive response to the amount of planning and postulating and
manoevring and jobs lost and money changed hands that it takes to generate
brand equity these days. It kind of is what it is, and if developers like
this lot keep taking good money for polluting the net then that's what it
is.


you've gone for html transitional and table

> based layout; very wise. no versions of outlook handle strict dom
> layouts correctly and always mangle your work. use as little css as
> possible; fonts only. anything else generates unpredictable results.
> always, always, specify alt text and dimensions for images and table
> cells. remember that if the pictures don't load, it will screw up your
> layout. your mail will be read through a much wider range of renderers
> than you could possibly imagine; far more than any web site. webmail is
> evil; gmail is pretty good but yahoo destroys stuff badly. check your
> work over and over again in as many email clients and webmail clients as
> you can. they just don't work like browsers... ;) i have a template
> built which has had some pretty solid testing done on a range of webmail
> and email client apps; you're welcome to it if you want. it reads like
> shit, but it works. ;)


Helpful stuff for sure.