@supports is basically like a media query to test support for CSS features. The W3C specification actually calls it feature query. It has been around for a while in web development, ever since around 2013. And it is now available in pretty much every modern…
@supports
This was presented on Tuesday 29 August at Litmus Live London as part of the #EmailHacks session hosted by Kevin Mandeville. You can find my slides here and view the email camera demo here. Here’s a transcript of my lightning talk.
Recently I had to code something similar to the following as a header for a responsive email.
My first idea was to use a background image for the stripes. But background image support in emails is not that great. Outlook.com only supports the HTML background…
background
Last month, Microsoft introduced a new feature in Outlook.com and Office 365 that caused a lot of headaches to email developers. This has been discussed widely by the community, may it be on Slack or on Litmus forums. But it has…
Gmail had its biggest update ever last year, adding responsive design and media queries support. But there seems to be a lot of recurring questions from email developers having trouble to make responsive emails work in Gmail.
Last August, I wrote an article about trying to make sense of Gmail CSS support. Barely two weeks after, Google announced an update, or may I say the most important update ever made to Gmail, adding (among other…
The doctype is the very first line of any HTML document. But do you know which one…
Email clients block images. Campaign Monitor and Litmus already have detailed articles explaining when that happens. But I always wondered how that happens. That is, how do webmails block images when they don’t display them by default? So I made a few tests focusing on images…
“Does it work on Gmail?” is a recurring question in the email coding world. But the answer really depends on which version of Gmail you actually use. And it can be really hard to make sense of it all because there are a lot of factors to take into account…
