The (Sorry) State of HTML Mail
Web design used to be a black art. Ten years ago, browser differences used to be so dramatic that the only viable solution for an HTML designer was to fall back to the least common denominator for page layout, which was HTML tables. In today’s web design community, using table layouts is considered to be a heinous crime, since most popular modern rendering engines (IE, Gecko and WebKit) are converging to some shared interpretation of web standards. Unlike layout engines on the web, though, rich mail interpreters have remained stagnant, and in some cases have regressed. Without pointing any fingers