Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content • Hacker News Board

I wish there was something like BrowserStack but you send a test email and it shows you how it renders on tons of different email clients on various platforms. It wouldn't work for web-based email like Gmail but it would still be useful.

Re: Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

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Post by jolmg » Mon, May 06, 2024, 11:44 PM UTC

whoisthemachine wrote: post #4

The two most popular clients, Gmail and Outlook, are ranked at 25 and 41 (the bottom) respectively.

That's reminiscent of IE, being the most popular and underfeatured.

Re: Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

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Post by Julesman » Mon, May 06, 2024, 11:48 PM UTC

I think it would be more useful to list the few CSS properties that all email clients do recognize. I don't mean to be flippant. I'm serious.

CanIEmail? The answer is generally no.

Re: Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

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Post by benmanns » Mon, May 06, 2024, 11:51 PM UTC

decremental wrote: post #5

I wish there was something like BrowserStack but you send a test email and it shows you how it renders on tons of different email clients on various platforms. It wouldn't work for web-based email like Gmail but it would still be useful.

Good news, https://www.litmus.com/ is exactly this, and does work for Gmail.

Re: Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

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Post by kylehotchkiss » Mon, May 06, 2024, 11:52 PM UTC

Outlook supporting padding in 2003 then not really supporting it in any follow up client sounds just about right for the dumpster fire experience that is trying to make an email look nice.

Re: Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

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Post by userbinator » Mon, May 06, 2024, 11:53 PM UTC

The lower the score, the better. I know many who have a policy of "emails must be in plaintext only, with no attachments unless agreed to in advance; everything else gets deleted automatically."