We were excited to recently roll out full browser compliance with our StickyFish and Tribal Direct admin sites. As a part of that effort, we upgraded to a full cross-browser compliant HTML email editor.
The good news is you can now use either Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari to admin your sites and edit your emails, and the emails you create will be W3C compliant which will make your emails more accessible to more email clients in a more consistent manner.
Now for the bad news…
Being W3C and cross-browser compliant increases the requirement for properly formatted, clean HTML code. You may find that templates you used in the old editor require modification for use in the new editor. And we also want to point out that going forward Microsoft Word should NOT be used to write your HTML because it writes non-W3C compliant code. If you need another editor, here is a link to a free HTML editor that creates compliant code: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Here are a couple more email related items we wanted to point out:
- Outlook 2007 has reverted to using Microsoft Word rendering as opposed to Internet Explorer rendering and as such has taken a large step backwards with the images, backgrounds, and CSS styling that will appear in Outlook 2007. For more information on what Outlook 2007 does and does not support please refer to the following URLs:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/01/microsoft_takes_email_design_b.html
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