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Nope, Outlook now uses the Word rendering engine, since it's part of the Office family. Totally makes sense right?
by ecoffey 17y ago
Nope, Outlook now uses the Word rendering engine, since it's part of the Office family. Totally makes sense right?
- dschobel 17y agoThat was it, thanks for the clarification. I still can't believe they're maintaining two distinct HTML renderers...
- wmf 17y agoConsidering the politics of such a large company, they're lucky if they only have two.
- pohl 17y agoYou'd be right about that. There's another one in the Media Center division, and it happens to be much more strict with respect to standards, although perhaps not as full-featured.
- Legion 17y agoDescribing what the Word engine does with HTML as "rendering" is probably being charitable.
- stingraycharles 17y agoWell, if Outlook uses the Word rendering engine, then at least it's somewhat decent, looking at some HTML formatted emails that fill my inbox.
- stilist 17y agoOnly because a lot of HTML email is tested to make sure it’ll appear at least somewhat as expected in Outlook.
- DougBTX 17y agoThis is a good point, but having just designed an HTML formatted email don't discount the fact that Outlook is popular enough to gain bend-over-backwards-to-make-it-work status. Having said that, it wasn't too difficult to get it looking good.
- blasdel 17y agoThere's at least 4 independent codebases — modern IE (which includes 3+ renderers), MS Word, archaic Mobile IE, and the new IE6-based Mobile IE they have in development.