As I type this post I still can't believe it. I'm literally stunned. If you haven't already heard, I'm talking about the recent news that Outlook 2007, released next month, will stop using Internet Explorer to render HTML emails and instead use the crippled Microsoft Word rendering engine.
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I receive a lot of content from clients via Word Documents. I copy and paste the content from the doc to a webpage. If I'm using Dreamweaver, then I use a couple of tools built in and remove all the Word injected crud. If I'm in a content manager and using an editor, I press a button and the crud goes away. But if I'm in something that doesn't have that capability, I have to spend my time replacing the quotes, double quotes, the dashes, the bullets that the client is assuming will just copy across without a hitch.
I can't imagine (Don't want to, can't make me) writing an email in Outlook with the Word rendering engine in place. What does this mean for the average joe using the product? Many of your emails will be difficult to read and may be garbled. Your ability to create a nice looking email with background colors will be limited.
Alas, since its Microsoft, it will happen. Its like playing with the neighborhood bully. You can't argue with him, he's going to play however he wants to, you just happen to be on the team.
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