Mark:
Mac OSX comes with a prog called Mail (known as Apple Mail), then there's, I guess, Entourage for MS Office users, Outlook Express, Eudora - and others.
I use Mail - which by logic should use the Safari engine for rendering HTML - but I've had similar problems with unwanted white space in my messages as rendered by Mail. The bad news is, I gave up on trying to fix it, and loosened the layout to compensate - not an option in your case, I can see. One hint, though - my problem had to do with table cells as well, and I've an idea that it has something to do with font sizes and baselines, even if there's no text in the cell.
Mind you, I wasn't using pure CSS for the layout; I stick with traditional bloated HTML for maximum compatibility. My main concern is the browser-based mail clients - Hotmail et al - that do horrible things to CSS-based emails.
See article on A List Apart <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssemail/> for more info...
BTW, your mockup renders fine in Safari 1.0.2 and IE5.2.2 (on OSX 10.2.8). Let me know direct if you want screenshots.
G'luck!
Nick ___________________________ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/
On Thursday, June 10, 2004, at 01:08 PM, Mark Stanton wrote:
Hi All
I've got an HTML email that I need to prepare for a client. The mockup can be seen at:
HTML: http://mark.gruden.com/beerworth/ CSS: http://mark.gruden.com/beerworth/lib/main.css
We didn't design it, we just did the HTML & CSS work. An initial review by the designers (MAC users) has resulted in them coming back saying there are padding/margin issues on Safari 1.1.1 and IE 5.2. Bascially the blue area on the right side (the bit starting with "You are subscribed to...) has a couple of pixels white space at the top & bottom. This blue should be sitting flush with the header & footer.
I've tested it on IE 5.1.7 (it looks fine), but don't have access to either of these other browsers.
I've got two questions:
1) What mail client are available on the MAC and what browsers do they use for rendering HTML content?
2) What is causing this issue and what can I do to fix it?
Thanks in advance.....
Mark
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