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Being the only coder at my startup, you have to do everything. And the other day, I had to spend the whole day troubleshooting rendering differences between Out
by smithkl42 11y ago
Being the only coder at my startup, you have to do everything. And the other day, I had to spend the whole day troubleshooting rendering differences between Outlook and GMail. It reminds me of the old days, back around the time of IE6, when it was all-but-impossible to get FF and IE to render the same HTML - except worse, by at least an order of magnitude. It's astounding to me that the same companies who've worked their asses off to make sure that their browsers all render HTML and CSS exactly the same, haven't given the slightest thought to making sure that their email clients can get along. This is a huge time-suck for developers. Glad to see that they're getting the public shaming they deserve.
- danielsamuels 11y ago> And the other day, I had to spend the whole day troubleshooting rendering differences between Outlook and GMail. We just build the template in Mailchimp and export it out as HTML nowadays. Never had an issue with that workflow.
- jkturbo 11y agoAuthor here. Glad to hear this from another developer. I think once developers are tasked to code an email, perhaps something as simple as a notification or a report, they'll quickly realize how truly foobar the email situation is. Short emails may be fine with plain text, but once you need to present any sort of structure, HTML becomes necessary and there's no reason why email needs to be this difficult.