Comments on: E-mail is not a platform for design

By: HTML email sucks: lack of support & lack of necessity - TJ Kelly

HTML email sucks: lack of support & lack of necessity - TJ Kelly — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:04:59 +0000

[...] Web browsers have come a long way over the years, but email clients’ HTML-rendering skills have not. And I’m ok with that. If I may blatantly steal from the great Jeffrey Zeldman here, Companies spend hours crafting layouts that may not work in Eudora or Gmail, or may no longer work in Outlook…Even in programs that support the crap code used to create these layouts, all that hard visual work will go unseen if the user has unchecked “View HTML Mail” in their preferences…As for CSS, it is partially supported in some e-mail applications and in web apps like Gmail, but only if you author in nonsemantic table layouts and bandwidth-wasting inline CSS. (Zeldman, 2007) [...]

By: nitzsche.info/Blog/Standards in HTML-E-Mails

nitzsche.info/Blog/Standards in HTML-E-Mails — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:41:27 +0000

[...] E-mail is not a platform for design, by Jeffrey Zeldman [...]

By: Css and HTML for email design? « CssGlance gallery - Css based websites showcase, css examples and web design resources

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:00:13 +0000

[...] Zeldman explains why, according to him, the use of HTML and CSS in email impedes rather than aids [...]

By: nicolosko's Network on Delicious

nicolosko's Network on Delicious — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:24:19 +0000

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By: Συζήτηση - how to send email with html page? | VCDC Forum

Συζήτηση - how to send email with html page? | VCDC Forum — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:02:07 +0000

[...] από Arty2 » 10.06.07, 12:17 pm Ο γνωστός και μη εξαιρεταίος Zeldman επί του θέματος: http://www.zeldman.com/2007/06/08/e-mail-is-not-a-platform-for-design/ [...]

By: Email Standards Project

Email Standards Project — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:05:54 +0000

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By: The Email Standards Project — onenaught.com

The Email Standards Project — onenaught.com — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:51:04 +0000

[...] E-mail is not a platform for design, Jeffery Zeldman (the guy who started the Web Standards move), June 2007. [...]

By: Claudio Santambrogio - csant/log

Claudio Santambrogio - csant/log — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:56:58 +0000

[...] phones, or hand-held devices, or almost anything else that can display text and permits typing.That’s what e-mail is for. That’s why it’s great. There is not much more I think I’d add to that: it says in a nutshell what [...]

By: Yay Hooray | Email Newsletters (You get any good ones?)

Yay Hooray | Email Newsletters (You get any good ones?) — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:24:08 +0000

[...] other resource? slobirdrop 158 days ago BUDDY? ENEMY? SEND A MESSAGE View Source heh, this, is what i get for a google of: "well designed html newsletters" clojita 158 days [...]

By: Tom Morris: 2009-05-07

Tom Morris: 2009-05-07 — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:35:23 +0000

[...] offspring annotated in blink tags, marquee tags and Java applets, he must do so explicitly. Go and read Zeldman’s first blast on HTML mail. He recants after all the marketing droids pile on. But it’s important. Just as you should make [...]

By: Should You Be Using HTML Email?

Should You Be Using HTML Email? — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:17:21 +0000

[...] Zeldman says, email is not a platform for design. The whole point of email is to send text messages quickly and [...]

By: Email, Email, Burning Bright - Corvus Consulting

Email, Email, Burning Bright - Corvus Consulting — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:41:22 +0000

[...] Zeldman, a web design visionary whom I’ve had the privilege of working with, has some thoughts on the use of HTML email that got me thinking this morning. He sums up his sentiment and rationale to say [...]

By: WEB 3.0 » Blog Archive » ¿Así que querías saber (casi todo) de CSS?

WEB 3.0 » Blog Archive » ¿Así que querías saber (casi todo) de CSS? — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:37:04 +0000

[...] E-mail is Not a Platform for Design – Jeffery Zeldman [...]

By: 8 HTML Email Tips I Wish I’d Known Sooner

8 HTML Email Tips I Wish I’d Known Sooner — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:20:34 +0000

[...] solution might be to take Zeldman’s advice and stop using HTML email altogether. After all, email isn’t the web, so why try to treat it [...]

By: Resource Download: Email Template « MEDIA SALT

Resource Download: Email Template « MEDIA SALT — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:00:53 +0000

[...] quote Zeldman, “All these years of internet use later, HTML mail still [...]