![]() ![]() This was going fine for a while, it just was finicky as all hell. ![]() I’d make a bunch of changes trying to get the template in shape, then test it all in Litmus to check if I was on the right track. I started with this and actually got pretty far just doing it all by hand. That would work for our basic 2-column format. MailChimp has some very old but very still functional email templates on GitHub, so I started there. I didn’t feel good to leave behind what I consider pretty normal and mostly semantic markup for whatever the hell Outlook needs, but hey, the job is delivering good experiences, not theoretical purity. The layout wasn’t just a little bad, it was super duper bad. But we got just enough reports from Outlook users that it bugged me. I used normal s and CSS and essentially designed a simple modern website, media queries and all, as the email. In our latest CodePen Spark template, I basically ignored Outlook. I’ll just continue to say “Outlook” in this post, but what I mean is the bad Outlook(s). ![]() Let’s hope One Outlook actually pans out. MJML MAILCHIMP WINDOWSBut Outlook on Windows is still mega popular, so here we are. The gist of it is: Outlook as a Native Windows app. Just “Outlook” isn’t quite fair though, it’s “Outlook that uses the Microsoft Word rendering engine”, which is a subset of Outlook email clients. Without it, HTML email development could take a leap forward. The thing that requires markup because of how many limitations it has. It’s solely the thing that keeps HTML email development painful. You probably know this: Outlook is the worst. The 2nd most popular email client to open The Spark is Outlook, just behind Gmail. It goes out every week to millions of developers. The CodePen Spark is a fairly big deal for CodePen. ![]()
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