Mark W.rites

Articles and essays on design, technology, and my POV of the world. For shorter bursts find me on Mastodon.

Web Standards: a Must for HTML Email

May 25, 2007

Four story building of old architecture, shaped in a square with an open courtyard, with Paris on the horizon behind it.

Paper for the W3C HTML Mail Workshop, 24 May 2007, Paris, France. Originally published on the W3C website for the workshop.

CSS and Email, Kissing in a Tree

March 26, 2004

Illustration of a window with colorful lines that symbolize a code editor.

Originally published on the A List Apart website.

Despite prevailing wisdom to the contrary, you can safely deploy HTML emails styled with good old-fashioned CSS. Yes, I really just said that. Not all attributes will be invited to the party, but many of them work flawlessly with this method.