A noobie email coder’s view on Google’s Amp for email
The email community was awash on February 13th this year, an unwanted early valentines day gift had landed on the Google blog, bringing the power of AMP to email.
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5 ways to stay up to date with email code
The long-peddled phrase about email development being stuck in 1999 isn’t true any more, with some of the best and most popular email clients matching web standards pretty much toe-to-toe. Recently we’ve seen Gmail fix almost all of their rendering issues (with some nuances) and…
Will there ever be an email standard?
TL;DR: TD,TR aren’t good, but we’re stuck with them. As you may or may not know, the HTML standard for email is a mess. There is no defined standard, it is more a way of coding that is a reliable as we can get in…
iOS 8 Mail: The video tag is missing in action
We’ve been doing some testing with Apple’s production release of iOS8, naturally focusing on the mail client, and one of the main findings so far has been a lack of support for the <video> tag. Testing our recent studio moving email loads the poster image,…
Render Testing Mailbox for Mac
As you may have seen, the beta for Mailbox for Mac was released a couple of days ago. We thought we’d do a few quick tests to see how it’s rendering engine held up. First we sent #emailweekly, which is a template we’ve built using…