The Email Standards Project has garnered some attention from us over the last while, with its attempts to bring a lesser version of web standards to the process of rendering HTML in emails.
Their recent “2008 Gmail Appeal” looks to have had some success, with a member of the Gmail development team getting in contact and promising that some effort will be made to improve the popular webmail system’s HTML rendering. What’s next?
With the recent announcement of IE8, Microsoft stated that web designers would have to opt-in to take full advantage of their first ever standards compliant browser.
Web designers supporting web standards responded en-masse pointing out the flaws of this approach, and, in a surprising turn of events, Microsoft listened.
Does Gmail ever make you grimace? Most users would probably say no. However, if you’re a web designer you might have a different story to tell…
Enter “Project Gmail Grimace”
Web design is not a simple process and it relies not just on a good designer producing something that has the perfect look, but on good communication between client and designer.
Across the board web browsers have improved their support for web standards tenfold. The same can not be said for email clients.
Designing a HTML newsletter presents a minefield of potential errors that could result in some of your end-users seeing very strange and style-less results. It’s time for things to change.
Part 2 of our web development tools series focusses in on another Firefox extension, namely HTML Validator.
This tool provides additional validation feedback which adds to and complements the previously featured Web Developer extension.
This post began with the intention of spreading the word on Google Map’s new embed feature. It encountered some difficulties along the way and has become a small campaign to provide some answers.
If everything works out right, our web developer hopes to give something back to the Word Press community and make embedding a map a thought-free, hassle-free, standards-loving exercise.