Microsoft to ignore web standards in Outlook 2010 - enough is enough

In 2007 Microsoft decided to avoid using a browser to render HTML emails in place of a word processor. This immediately took standards-based email design off the table, forcing designers to abandon web standards for tables and font tags.

A senior member of the Outlook team confirmed they plan on continuing to use Word to render HTML emails for Outlook 2010. Really, guys? Really?!

This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position, no background images and lots more.

Outlook 2010 is still in beta and Microsoft wants your feedback. It’s time to rally together and encourage Microsoft to embrace web standards before it’s too late.

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Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen’s segments from Art:21

I uploaded this to Google video over 2 years ago and totally forgot about it. I miss her work.

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In related Ze news ….

C’mon guys, NARNIA!

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AWESOME ALERT: Ze Frank is now doing The Show-style videos for Time magazine. (via Gruber)

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Chime Hours practice space
Chime Hours practice space

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Black and White: An Interview with Mike Giant | Hypebeast
Black and White: An Interview with Mike Giant | Hypebeast

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Celebrities Upside-down (via craplinks)
Celebrities Upside-down (via craplinks)

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” … I don’t want to go to the future to find out what happens to White people, because we are going to pay hard for this shit … and we totally deserve it. But for now WWWEEEEEEEEEeeeee”

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For a limited time, the first episode of The State is free in iTunes.
For a limited time, the first episode of The State is free in iTunes.

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A couple weeks ago I chaperoned my daughters class field trip to Hill and Hollow CSA farm about an hour and a half south of Louisville. We spent 3 days and 2 nights on beautiful rural farm land with little to no electricity and no running water. We got our water from wells and a fresh water creek that ran throughout the property. It was the most refreshing 3 days I’ve had in long time.

This little guy woke me up both mornings before we did our animal chores. I became quite fond of him.

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