On the regular web (I suppose) we handle “dark mode” with the CSS prefers-color-scheme media query. But, and to nobody’s surprise, it’s way weirder in the land of HTML email. The weirdness is that across different email clients, they handle …
As long as I can remember the main source for feature support in HTML email clients is Campaign Monitor’s guide. Now there is a new player on the block: caniemail.com.
HTML email is often joked about in how …
We don’t generally think of CSS animations or transitions inside of email, or really any movement at all outside of an awkward occasional GIF. But there is really no reason you can’t use them inside HTML emails, particularly if you …
You love HTML emails, don’t you?
As a developer, probably not… but subscribers absolutely do. They devour them, consume them on every device known to man, and drive a hell of a lot of revenue for companies that take their …
Campaign Monitor has completely updated it’s guide to CSS support in email. Although there was a four-year gap between updates (and this thing has been around for 10 years!), it’s continued to be something I reference often when designing and …
Last week’s ShopTalk Show was all about HTML Email. It’s such a fascinating subject, as technically it is front-end web development, but it almost feels like a bizarro alternate universe.
We have dozens of browsers to worry about, they have …
And you use them pretty much just like you’d use custom fonts on a website. Jaina Mistry had the scoop on this last year over on the Litmus blog:
…While web fonts don’t have universal support, here are the email
This is surely a debated issue, but ultimately I say if you have a message you feel would benefit from a nicely designed email you should go for it. If you just …
