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HTML Email: Not In Microsoft Outlook 2007!

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Quoted from here:

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 uses the HTML parsing and
rendering engine from Microsoft Office Word 2007 to display HTML
message bodies. The same HTML and cascading style sheets (CSS) support
available in Word 2007 is available in Outlook 2007.

The limitations imposed by Word 2007 are described in detail in the article, but here are a few highlights:

  • no support for background images (HTML or CSS)
  • no support for forms
  • no support for Flash, or other plugins
  • no support for CSS floats
  • no support for replacing bullets with images in unordered lists
  • no support for CSS positioning
  • no support for animated GIFs

Read More.  What do I have to say?  Buh.

4 Responses to “HTML Email: Not In Microsoft Outlook 2007!”

  1. Anonymous Says:
    February 23rd, 2007 at 3:47 pm

    No emails should contain HTML. Many mail servers strip out the HTML and you are left with big blank spaces. Thanks to the virus writers and hackers we cannot safely let HTML through in emails. I am using Outlook 2007 and it is just like 2003 except the UI.

  2. Anonymous Says:
    February 23rd, 2007 at 7:56 pm

    But I like email! That's not fair. Stupid mail servers. Stupid virus writers and hackers.
    I wish I had Outlook 2007.. well not really. I use Thunderbird.. haha. I suppose you MS lover's wouldn't even know what Thunderbird is.

  3. Anonymous Says:
    February 26th, 2007 at 10:59 am

    I use Thunderbird as well.

  4. Anonymous Says:
    February 27th, 2007 at 3:57 pm

    So you use Outlook and Thunderbird both? Why?
    - Dustin

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