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Email Standards Project in .net Magazine

Posted by Mathew Patterson on March 27, 2008 in
Photo of the .net magazine article

UK web design print monthly .net magazine (not the framework) has just published their April edition, which contains an opinion piece I wrote for them titled 'Better HTML emails'. In the piece I explain some of the background to the Email Standards Project, and how designers should be taking note and getting involved.

It's nothing new for readers of this blog, but we are trying to reach out to a wider audience and every step helps. If you are in the USA (and also other countries), .net magazine is published as Practical Web Design, so check it out. It might be something useful to leave on your designer colleagues' desk at work.

39 Comments so far

Donna said...

I look around on both .net magazine site and this blog to find your article “Better HTML emails”, but wasn’t able to find it. Is it possible for you post it. I understand that it might have to wait until the next issue of .net is published though.

Thanks
Donna

Posted 1:20 am on 28 March 2008 - #1

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Posted 3:21 am on 28 March 2008 - #2
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Posted 5:26 am on 28 March 2008 - #3
Nick said...

That is great news!
I have not been able to keep up to date with the email side of things since dec as I changed jobs but it looks like I’m getting thrust back into the deep blue!
Anything big happened since I have been away?

Posted 10:40 pm on 28 March 2008 - #4
Manuel said...

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Posted 6:31 am on 29 March 2008 - #5
Zeb said...

Thanks for the online version

Posted 12:43 pm on 30 March 2008 - #6
Matt Radel said...

Awesome! I love me some .net. Great mag with great content & resources. Keep up the great work!

Posted 12:37 am on 01 April 2008 - #7

Kudos to the ESP bunch for setting this valuable shoutout to the developers of these email clients. It is my hope that very soon we can count on full standardized support from all these folks.

I have one suggestion for the Acid Test.

I think adding character text encoding (or decoding) support to the Acid Test is a very necessary item for the benefit of the international community who wishes to communicate using UTF-8 or 16 because of special characters used both in and out of the English language.

here’s my example scenario:
I currently publish a newsletter to a Spanish speaking audience and experienced some trouble sending my newsletter encoded in UTF-8 because some web-based clients (some yahoo and hotmail accounts on Safari) were apparently dictating iso8859-1 on their main interface; thus when I changed the text encoding reader on my browser, it would throw off either my message or the web-client’s spanish interface.

In an ideal world, I believe my browser should take care of rendering correctly the encoding for the page (yahoo/hotmail interface, for example) and the web-client (yahoomail or hotmail) should handle rendering the email message’s specified-text-encoding correctly as well.

Anybody else having this type of trouble or has found a solution?
I ended up converting and sending my mail messages in iso8859-1 (luckily all accents and basic spanish characters are also available in this encoding) and they read correctly, but now i can’t use some typographic characters that i want and it kills me. hehe…

Posted 10:59 am on 08 April 2008 - #8
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“""In an ideal world, I believe my browser should take care of rendering correctly the encoding for the page (yahoo/hotmail interface, for example) and the web-client (yahoomail or hotmail) should handle rendering the email message’s specified-text-encoding correctly as well."”

that’s correctly.thax for comment

Posted 4:59 am on 10 April 2008 - #9
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Congratulations!!!is that your photo on magazine..??
And Robert Valencia’s comment is correctly

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