Email Doesn't Suck. It's Email Clients That Need Improving

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Delta Chat

#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Instant Messaging 42 social mentions

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MJML

I will say that it sucks just as a much from the developer front. I had to build some email templates for a project a few weeks ago and I was shocked how wired it was compared to regular webdev. Using a framework is almost a requirement if you don't want to spend all your time on little differences between email clients. The layout is really wired too, with the recommendation to use a ton of nested tables. Not to mention wired bugs like Apple Mail not rendering a background unless you have an image on the page. The best solution I've found thus far is to use MJML React [1]. This sorta normalizes things and lets you write normal react code that gets transpiled into some abomination that Outlook can read. But it sucks that the only two options that are actually worth a damn seem to be MJML[2] and Foundation[3]. If anyone has had good experiences with other frameworks I'm very much open to suggestions. [1]: https://github.com/wix-incubator/mjml-react [2]: https://mjml.io/ [3]: https://get.foundation/emails.html.

#Email Marketing #Email Newsletters #Email Productivity 86 social mentions

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Foundation for Emails 2

I will say that it sucks just as a much from the developer front. I had to build some email templates for a project a few weeks ago and I was shocked how wired it was compared to regular webdev. Using a framework is almost a requirement if you don't want to spend all your time on little differences between email clients. The layout is really wired too, with the recommendation to use a ton of nested tables. Not to mention wired bugs like Apple Mail not rendering a background unless you have an image on the page. The best solution I've found thus far is to use MJML React [1]. This sorta normalizes things and lets you write normal react code that gets transpiled into some abomination that Outlook can read. But it sucks that the only two options that are actually worth a damn seem to be MJML[2] and Foundation[3]. If anyone has had good experiences with other frameworks I'm very much open to suggestions. [1]: https://github.com/wix-incubator/mjml-react [2]: https://mjml.io/ [3]: https://get.foundation/emails.html.

#Email Marketing #Email Newsletters #HTML To PDF 5 social mentions