[development] HTML emails

Thu Jul 24 08:36:31 UTC 2008

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 18:44 +0200, Stefan Nagtegaal wrote:
> 
> Op 16 jul 2008, om 18:06 heeft Darrel O'Pry het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Matt Connolly <matt at cabinetuk.com>
> > wrote:
> >         
> >         Besides, email clients have been HTML friendly for a *long*
> >         time, so I don't see why Drupal shouldn't have an interface
> >         that understands rich email messages.
> >         
> >         
> >         Thoughts?
> > 
> > Have you even tried to make an HTML email look the same in multiple
> > email clients?  That stuff is impossible... and forget it if you
> > want colored anchors or css support consistently. Heck they don't
> > even send mime attachments consistently... They all do something
> > close to spec... and lets not even get into the quirks of various
> > webmail clients and the pluthera of different versions of MS Outlook
> > in the wild and still supported by MS.
> 
> 
> It isn't impossible!
> Just use CSS and make sure you have a wrapper div around your
> HTML-layout, styled with the CSS.
> The only thing that breaks your e-mails along the different e-mail
> clients is when you add styling to the <body>...</body> of your HTML
> e-mail.

Some current email clients support HTML but *not* CSS.

	Xav