I'm all over for using cutting edge CSS solutions but when it comes to HTML email, I'm just: Hello ... ... Thanks! and it's done :)
So now imagine that you would like to add .
Well... Good luck with shady VML tricks!
Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
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Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
#52I'm just now trying to send some mathematics in an email (where most recipients will be reading it in Gmail), so I'm having to figure out what subset of HTML and CSS Gmail supports. (Found this reference for CSS: https://developers.google.com/gmail/design/reference/support... ) It turns out that simply using MathJax or KaTeX and pasting the resulting web page into an email doesn't work: Gmail doesn't support SVG imag…
That's why most folks I know either write a short latex file (and append pdf+tex) or write pseudo code or full latex code because... The recipient understands latex. But honestly, this is way more portable then mathjax or MathML or whatever. Consider using a latex enabled chat when it really differs.
Yes, those were two other options I considered. Ultimately both require higher effort from the reader (view the PDF, or mentally parse LaTeX syntax or have something special installed that does so), neither of which is conducive to quick skimming etc. Just optimizing for reader convenience. :-)
Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
#53For me discovering https://mjml.io/ was the best thing as it takes away the pain of having to think about all the nitpicks of the different email clients and abstracts it into it's own little markup language. It supports responsive email designs and has many examples which you can alter to your needs. You can see the power here: https://mjml.io/try-it-live the basic 15 line example expands to 188 lines of html so tha…
Have you tried https://zurb.com/ink/index.php ? Seems similar, and a bit older
Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
#54It would be really nice to have a small and simple markup language, say some markdown standard, to be the layouting language for E-Mails. No (external) images, just links, lists, headings, basic formatting. HTML E-Mails are a security nightmare, even if "only" CSS is "allowed" and JS/iframes/external images are not loaded.
No markdown, but we had success with this one: https://mjml.io/
Try out the online examples.
Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
#55Christ on a bike, the state of Outlook on Windows is absolutely miserable. I knew it by experience when I started preparing HTML signatures for our company, but seeing the list makes me even sadder about the absolute state of incompetency caused by legacy systems in Microsoft. For those uninformed, Outlook on Windows effectively works on a terrible (and terribly old) implementation of HTML that was initially develope…
Everything that discourages designers from doing fancy things is good in my book.
You're a fool
Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
#56For me discovering https://mjml.io/ was the best thing as it takes away the pain of having to think about all the nitpicks of the different email clients and abstracts it into it's own little markup language. It supports responsive email designs and has many examples which you can alter to your needs. You can see the power here: https://mjml.io/try-it-live the basic 15 line example expands to 188 lines of html so tha…
Have you tried https://zurb.com/ink/index.php ? Seems similar, and a bit older
They are very, very different things.
Zurb Email is like Bootstrap/Zurb Foundation, for email. They are common styles that apply to your HTML.
MJML, in other hand, is not HTML. You write MJML, instead of HTML, and it compiles to HTML.
It's really fantastic.
Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
#57I'm surprised to find no mention of MJML on this thread - it's more of a developer tool than a user facing one. You get to design your emails using a simplified markup language that resembles HTML, and it converts it into minified HTML that works pretty well on most email clients. Kudos to the guys behind it!
This is the correct response and really needs to be upvoted for everyone to see.
Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
#58Anyone wanna chime in on conversion rates when it comes to styled vs. plain text? I always hear that the latter converts better, i.e. "Make it look like as if it was sent by a friend" and obviously it's a business related matter but I wonder why plain isn't used more often when visuals/emotion aren't the #1 selling points.
I think images are used for marketing emails because spam filters are worse at detecting them.
Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
#59Christ on a bike, the state of Outlook on Windows is absolutely miserable. I knew it by experience when I started preparing HTML signatures for our company, but seeing the list makes me even sadder about the absolute state of incompetency caused by legacy systems in Microsoft. For those uninformed, Outlook on Windows effectively works on a terrible (and terribly old) implementation of HTML that was initially develope…
Fix: Send WINMAIL.DAT attachments with fully formatted RTF/DOC files. Ta-da!
Re: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
#60I'm all over for using cutting edge CSS solutions but when it comes to HTML email, I'm just: Hello ... ... Thanks! and it's done :)
So now imagine that you would like to add . Well... Good luck with shady VML tricks! https://buttons.cm/
Buttons in emails sound fishy :) I would just use an inline styled anchor.