Microsoft has no plans to fix Outlook 2010 HTML rendering issue
June 25th, 2009 Leave a comment Visited 38 times, 1 so far today
Microsoft has no plans to fix Outlook 2010 HTML rendering issue
Microsoft has responded to the ongoing protest on Twitter related to the usage of Word 2010 engine for HTML email rendering.
The Fix Outlook protest has indeed generated an official response from the company but it is not good.
Microsoft had this to say in a response posted on the Outlook Team Blog:
“Microsoft welcomes the development of broadly-adopted e-mail standards. We understand that e-mail is about interoperability among various e-mail programs, and we believe that Outlook provides a good mix of a rich user experience and solid interoperability with a wide variety of other e-mail programs. There is no widely-recognized consensus in the industry about what subset of HTML is appropriate for use in e-mail for interoperability. The “Email Standards Project” does not represent a sanctioned standard or an industry consensus in this area. Should such a consensus arise, we will of course work with other e-mail vendors to provide rich support in our products. We are constantly working to improve our products and the experience that they give to our customers.”
This is a disappointment for any web standards fan who has to use Outlook because of corporate reasons.
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Manuj
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June 25th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
I don’t understand how HTML-formatted e-mail and Web standards are being conflated together. The specifiation of HTML-formatted e-mail has always been different as well as I can tell, and it doesn’t have a lot to do with whether or not Word is installed alongside Outlook of the same version.
If a matching version of Word is not installed, it is still possible to send HTML-formatted e-mail and the receiving of HTML-formatted e-mail seems to work the same with or without Word along-side.
So exactly what is the beef?