[LINK] Re: Limit Email Size to Reduce Carbon Emissions?

[Eric Scheid]

On 30/11/07 10:44 AM, "Rick Welykochy" <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:

> Note how the HTML embeds style attributes in each tag instead of using
> the defined stylesheet. Even someone in the first week of a class on
> coding HTML and CSS knows not to do this.

And in the second week* you learn that relying on style sheets and <style/>
definitions will result in failure in a disturbingly large number of
html-email clients.

html+css support in web browsers is sufficiently advanced and supported that
it is appropriate to upbraid any bad code found. The same can not be said
for html+css support in mail readers though - it's a real shambles, imagine
it's the days of IE 2.0 all over again.

<http://www.email-standards.org/>
<http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/10400.html>
<http://www.webstandards.org/2007/11/28/the-email-standards-project/>
<http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/09/why_we_need_web_standa
rds_supp_1.html>

e.

* well, probably not the second week. More like in the first week of a
optional elective in the second year.