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Responsive Email Design. While phone screen sizes have been steadily increasing over the years along with screen resolution, it can be tempting to include more and more images in your emails.

Responsive Email Design

But a word of caution: While images can bring an extra wow factor to your emails, images should always be thoughtfully added with accessibility and mobile load times top of mind. In this chapter, we’ll look at some techniques that take advantage of supported CSS properties like background-image. These techniques will not only allow you to display mobile-optimized images throughout your designs, but ensure they look crisp at any width.

Using background images for better headers Support and the use of background images have been on the rise in the last couple of years thanks in part to increased CSS support utilizing all the benefits that media queries can bring. One benefit of the increased support is the ability to put live text on images. Background images and live text Let’s see how this is done. So let’s put it all together. Guide to CSS support in email. Version history 14 November 2017 Outlook.com and the Outlook iOS app added support for CSS background images and some related properties, as well as certain Flexbox and Grid properties.

Guide to CSS support in email

Also added iOS 11 Mail to the guide, with no noticeable differences from iOS 10. 22 September 2017 Microsoft updated the Outlook apps for iOS and Android with more consistent CSS support, including media queries. 13 September 2017 A complete rewrite and redesign of the guide, testing 278 different CSS properties and features across 35 email clients. To accommodate the huge increase in content, we’ve added search functionality and the ability to link directly to individual the email clients and properties for easy sharing.Discuss this on our blog. 2 May 2014 Removed support for various selector options (E) in Gmail and added support for direction, vertical-align and list-style-type in Outlook ’07/’10/’13. 19 September 2013 30 January 2013 1 February 2012 background-image is now supported in Gmail. 10 December 2010.

Comparison of email clients FUNCTION. The following tables compare general and technical features of a number of email client programs.

Comparison of email clients FUNCTION

Please see the individual products' articles for further information. General[edit] Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, licence/price etc. Clients listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development. Release history[edit] A brief digest of the release histories. Operating system support[edit] The operating systems on which the clients can run natively (without emulation). Protocol support[edit] Communication and access protocol support[edit] What email and related protocols and standards are supported by each client. Jump up ^ Becky! Authentication support[edit] SSL and TLS support[edit] Features[edit] Information on what features each of the clients support.

General features[edit] For all of these clients, the concept of "HTML support" does not mean that they can process the full range of HTML that a web browser can handle. Messages features[edit] The Bat! SVGs in HTML5 compatibility. We know that we can write inline SVG or SVG tags directly in HTML5 document, but not all browsers support that.

SVGs in HTML5 compatibility

Here is a compatibility table that displays the support of inline SVG in HTML5 in modern desktop and mobile web browsers. Image courtesy : You can try running this small piece of code in browsers other than the ones that support inline SVG (this should run fine in latest versions of Firefox, IE and Google Chrome). <! DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body><h1>Test - Inline SVG compatibility</h1><svg id="mySVG" width="200" height="150" style="border: 1px solid black;"><g id="myGroup"><rect id="myRect" width="36.416" height="36.416" x="30" y="30" fill="red"/><text id="myText" x="80" y="80" font-family="Verdana" font-size="24" fill="blue">hello world</text></g></svg></body></html> Like this: Like Loading...