CSS in the Year 2007

The fine folks at Campaign Monitor just recently published their “Guide to CSS Support in Email: 2007 Edition”. Since their last CSS wrap up, a lot has changed – unfortunately in the wrong direction – mostly having to do with Outlook 2007’s refusal to incorporate IE’s HTML rendering engine, instead opting for Word’s mediocre engine.

It isn’t all bad news though. Yahoo!, the leading web-based email client, just released their new interface, which has the most CSS compliance than any of the other competing web-clients such as Gmail and the new Window’s Live Mail service. Lets just hope that the majority of the existing users will adopt the new interface.

They conclude that table-based email designs with inline styles are a sure-fire way to ensure that your emails render correctly for both B2B and B2C purposes.

They wrap up their study quite nicely with this easy-to-reference chart in .pdf format that you can find right here.