This week, I once again had the pleasure to speak at Litmus Live in London. I gave a short talk about an Email Camera. But I also gave a longer talk called “The Great Mess of Alternative Text”…
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.
Until last year, Gmail was one of the biggest email clients that only supported inline styles. The webmails of Yahoo, AOL, Outlook.com and, yes, even the desktop versions of Outlook using Word’s rendering engine (from 2007 to 2016 on Windows) have all long…
Apple just released iOS 10, and with it, a new version of Apple Mail. I have been playing with iOS 10 since the very first beta back in June. And here are some of the things I think are noteworthy about this new update for email developers and…
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…
Last week, I had the honor to speak at The Email Design Conference in London (aka TEDC16 or #LitmusLive). I gave a talk I called “Thinking Outside the <table>”. It’s a mix of some of my previous articles, like Super Mail Forward, Using Flexbox in an Email or The…
Not every webmails or mail applications support media queries. In order to adapt an email layout from mobile to desktop, it is important to find technical solutions that don’t rely on its use. And luckily, the CSS Flexible Box Layout Module (Flexbox) allows exactly that. Flexbox is…
