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I don't think it's just us getting old. Newcomers to the filed don't really understand HTML and CSS. It's just "React components" to them, and they aren't looki
by k3liutZu 3y ago
I don't think it's just us getting old. Newcomers to the filed don't really understand HTML and CSS. It's just "React components" to them, and they aren't looking deeper than that.
- whstl 3y agoI'm getting the feeling that a lot of old timers also don't understand HTML and CSS in emails, from the responses I'm seeing here. There are a lot of reasons to have abstractions over HTML/CSS in emails, for all but the trivial cases. It is notoriously difficult to get right, since there are some features lacking and standards in the email client space moves way slower than browser. A regular marketing HTML email would look unrecognizable to a lot of old timers.
- Aeolun 3y agoAs long as you stick to only HTML that was available in the year 2000, and use zero CSS, your mails will come out the same in pretty much every client.
- stnmtn 3y agoAbsolutely, but show what this will look like to the marketing team and they will, probably rightly, tell you that times have changed. For a major brand, CSS and pretty design is a requirement for all branded emails.
- Aeolun 3y agoYou can do all of that without CSS though. It’s just harder. For that having a React wrapper that makes the hard parts easy makes total sense.
- satvikpendem 3y agoHow would you make branded emails without CSS?
- winphone1974 3y agoThat's pretty unfair. It doesn't look like an html page they'd create for the web but I'm pretty sure they'd recognize html and css. Would someone who templated it in react see the connection?