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I got an email from Microsoft today with this kind of "letter". See https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNSgnyfWEAAvd9J.jpg:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNSgnyfWEA
by biot 11y ago
I got an email from Microsoft today with this kind of "letter". See https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNSgnyfWEAAvd9J.jpg:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNSgnyfWEAAvd9J.jpg:large
I hope this doesn't become a trend, like using a picture of laminate flooring as a website background was a number of years back.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoThis actively discriminates against people who find certain typefaces difficult, those using assistive technologies, and those using mobile devices. It's also not machine-friendly, so search engines can't index it and Ctrl+F doesn't work. There's probably plenty of other reasons people can give for why plaintext is better. I wish people wouldn't do this. It's not even necessary to get the desired effect. CSS has had rotation, custom fonts, custom backgrounds and such for a long time.
- blacksmith_tb 11y agoI am very sympathetic to your position, but CSS support in email clients is still surprisingly primitive (e.g. MS using Word's html rendering engine in Outlook). If you look at the source of most html emails that you get, they will be using tables for layout...
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoThe rotation is really the only thing I'd expect problems with. Surely Word supports background-image: ?