I love how this shiny new business email layout renders on everything except (checks notes) Outlook for Windows.
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I’m beginning to suspect my “Outlook eventually became useful” perspective is because I’ve been using it on macOS
(And when I say it renders on everything except Outlook/Win, I mean it actually appears on everything else, but it’s BLANK on Outlook.)
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Figured that part out, and spent over an hour triyng to figure out why one box wasn’t filling the background all the way to the edge. Only Outlook for Windows.
Finally started looking up quirks and found this:
https://www.litmus.com/blog/a-guide-to-rendering-differences-in-microsoft-outlook-clients/
Outlook 2007-2019
These are the Windows desktop versions of Outlook. These use Word as the rendering engine, which made sense at a time when email was like writing letters. (Ah, simpler times.)
Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me.
Not Blink or Trident. But WORD.
According to this page, even Outlook 365’s Windows Desktop client uses Word’s rendering engine!
The Mac version uses Webkit. The “New Outlook” on Windows uses Blink. The web version uses whatever browser it’s running in. But that’s only been released this year.
Was this some shortcut back in 2007 to prevent Outlook from executing JavaScript or something?