
Outlook Office365 Update?
Hey! Myself and a collegue have noticed some potential new things with Office 365. There used to be a load of issues with 365 from text to images. These are some issues we had in the past.
Body/table background images not rendering
Text-transform not rendering
a tags automatically being blue unless certain elements were used
Text-decoration being ignored and underlined anyway
div style="height: #px" required around images to stop automatic margins
td's minimum height of 20px
These issues were in incredibly frustrating as links would be underlined and backgrounds wouldn't show. These two in particular caused many a headache with clients and testing.
However during recent testing... we realised that our emails have backgrounds... oh? Okay... What did we do different this time? Nothing. Huh. Then on an old email campaign we noticed a 2px tall TD with solid colour (used as a divider) was no longer jumping to 20px height... Huh.
We've tested most of the issues above and well... They all seem to work absolutely fine with no work arounds needed!
Just thought I'd give a heads up that Microsoft seems to have listened and fixed some of these issues!
Well this is certainly refreshing, I've just sent some old campaigns through to a Office 365 mailbox and the pre-processor is certainly a lot more relaxed than it has been. Microsoft have indeed appeared to have updated OWA.
<b>
<u>
and<font>
in replacement of CSS style properties likefont-weight:bold;
text-decoration:none;
is now supported, one of the major issues with links/call to action buttonsCan't really comment on background images as don't really do much work with them, but generally it appears the other issues you mentioned are indeed working.
It seems the CSS support level of Office 365 just got a major boost, though no CSS3 however.
Someone mark this day as the day OWA didn't totally suck any more!
Another major change is Office 365 no longer strips ID and Classes from elements, it does however prepend
x_
to the original names you use.Its rendering of CSS in the head appears to be a bit more functional (previously it seem to render only some for no explainable reason). Now the styles end up just before the main body of your email. The structure of divs leading up to your email template has changed as well.
The
rps_95c6
class tends to change to a different sequence.Nice one James :)
Well that's pretty cool.
If you (or anyone) notice any other updates to the rending let us know.