Outlook 2007 change sends HTML email back to the future, for better and worse
Sourced from arstechnica.com
By Jeremy Reimer | Published: January 15, 2007 – 10:53AM CT
A major change to the way Outlook 2007 renders email has created quite a stir online, and Microsoft’s plans have largely been met with derision and critique.
The change, which is explained in detail on Microsoft’s site, involved decoupling Outlook 2007 from Internet Explorer’s HTML rendering engine. Instead, Outlook will use Word 2007’s HTML viewer, which is an incomplete rendering engine missing a few features previously supported by the IE engine. The end result is that e-mails that use certain advanced HTML and CSS features will be somewhat degraded in appearance in Outlook 2007, yet they will look fine in earlier versions of Outlook. One benefit is that this will make Outlook email more secure by making it impossible to hook potential IE exploits via email. Dud, or stud?
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