Vista: Wow! What happened to my email?
In an attempt to protect us all from ourselves, our friends at Microsoft have decided to revise the way Outlook, Outlook Express and ultimately Hotmail, will render HTML email. Unfortunately, this change may be to the detriment of your current permission email HTML templates.
Why so?
In a nutshell, your nicely designed email template may end up looking unattractive and dysfunctional. Designers have previously been able to exploit complex CSS positioning and formatting tags within email construction with the knowledge that their email would be rendered consistently in the majority of cases. Sadly, the current support for CSS has been limited in the latest release of Outlook and Outlook Express and the soon to be revised Hotmail freemail service. The basic result of this change will be undesirable content formatting and graphic rendering of emails that have not been designed to accommodate these changes.
What's the solution?
I'm glad you asked. Microsoft, in the short-term at least, is most certainly not going to change the way their new email applications render HTML, which means that your email template will probably need some rejigging at one level or another. The solution may be as simple as a subtle recode of your existing template. The opposite end of the scale may be a total redesign and rebuild.
Pixel Group has under taken lengthy testing to understand the full extent of how HTML email is rendered by Windows Vista.