Posted on December 7, 2007 at 8:43 am | 
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HTML vs text email is a debate that has been happening for as long as most can remember.
I came across a post on the Brightspark Blog last week linking to The Email Standards Project, something I was thrilled to hear about.
The Email Standards Project is about working with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.
A couple of months back this probably wouldn’t have meant much to me but a good mate of mine has recently had his heart broken and rebroken trying to get his client’s e-zine to render correctly in as many email clients as possible.
It’s one of the most frustrating things to develop for cross browser compatibility, it’s almost impossible to get you’re design to render 100% across all email clients, without sacrificing you’re beloved layout that is.
The email standards project has tested the dominant email clients and information on supported and non-supported CSS elements are all available from their Web site. It’s a valuable resource for designers and an initiative that will see us all emailing more happily into the future.
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December 9, 2007 @ 
Not anymore though.
Michele
I used to teach English to a guy who was in charge of the newsletter for a large Italian publisher and he was constantly struggling with it.
On a sidenote your page title looks completely b0rked