Markus,

We do use table layout (I call it back to the 90's HTML).
We have been using table based emails for several years now and are moving to 
'responsive(insert many definitions here!)' design.  We have had fairly good 
success with these.

-Fred Hahnel


-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Ernst [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 9:47 AM
To: Hahnel, Fred (DET-MRM)
Cc: CSS Discuss
Subject: Re: [css-d] HTML email question

Am 17.10.2013 14:40 schrieb Hahnel, Fred (DET-MRM):
> Good morning all,
>
> I  am writing a  HTML responsive email template.

Are you aware of the fact that e-mail clients are currently not reliably able 
to render modern HTML and CSS correctly at all? Outlook versions
2007 and 2010 e.g. use the rendering engine of MS Word. If you want your HTML 
mail to look somehow as you expect there, you will have to do table layouts as 
we did in the 90es. Some browser based clients do not apply styles you put in a 
<style> element, so you will have to use inline styles, which makes media 
queries unuseable even if they would be supported in some e-mail clients.

I personnally try to stay away from HTML e-mail jobs, as they are always a 
pain. If you really need to do it:
- Keep it basic
- Use a paid preview service that shows you the results of your code in a broad 
variety of e-mail clients

HTH
Markus
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