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I believe Outlook still uses the Microsoft Frontpage html engine. For those who don’t know, it’s was Microsoft WYSIWYG website builder that looked similar to W
by alberth 7y ago
I believe Outlook still uses the Microsoft Frontpage html engine.
For those who don’t know, it’s was Microsoft WYSIWYG website builder that looked similar to Word, from 20 years ago.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage
- smacktoward 7y agoNope, believe it or not, ever since Outlook 2007 it uses the HTML rendering engine from Word itself. Seriously! Someone at Microsoft looked at Outlook and said "this needs to have the same rendering capabilities as noted Web browser Microsoft Word." Sheesh.
- unilynx 7y agoI think they thought ‘lets just use Word to compose replies, but to prevent the email from getting corrupted once the user hits reply, we’ll already mangle it on the way in so the sender gets the blame’