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STATUS: Improvement Recommended Full Report »
Summary: Apple's .Mac used to be one of the best webmail clients. Then they spent countless hours developing a new AJAX version which, while sexy and modern, compromised their support for HTML emails (we wrote about this a while back). They sacrificed proper content-rendering for GUI enhancements.
It should be noted that the origin of most of .Mac's problems rendering CSS emails is their lack of support for descendant selectors. Our acid test performed moderately in .Mac, but when type selectors were used instead the result was increased support for the acid test. With descendant selectors out of the picture, .Mac gained full support for the following:
- Color/background-color
- Line-height
- List-style-image
- Margin
- Padding
- Varying link-colors
How .Mac handled our acid test:
