One of the lesser known quirks of Yahoo! Mail involves their CSS parser removing the next CSS style after comments. In this article, we'll go into how to address this issue by adding a phantom selector under comments as well as using this to your benefit by using it as a means to target Yahoo! Mail.
Strangely however, the comment bug only affects the Webmail version and not the Yahoo! Mail app...
Goodbye Gmail Grid View
It looks like Gmail's Grid View is no more. The email design and marketing community (no doubt - the majority of Grid View's users) noticed that Grid View was no longer displaying in Gmail's Promotional Tab late last Friday
The Litmus Creative Nav Contest Results Are In…
And I'm very elated to say that the Reader Mode entry has won this month's prize :) Check out some of the other cool entries that were submitted!
Reader Mode – Mobile Email Pagination
Here's an experimental mobile email technique that allows you to paginate a content heavy email so readers can navigate from article to article without scrolling. I hacked it up over a few days as an entry to Litmus' Creative Navigation in Email Community Contest...
Yahoo! Mail Fixes Media Query Bug. Yahoo!!!
It looks like the folks at Yahoo! Mail are responsive to the email design and developer community. Less than a month after the petition for Yahoo! Mail to fix their CSS parser that causes emails with media queries to break, they have put in a fix for it.
Interactive Shopping Widget for Email
This example shows how you can create an interactive carousel in email that leverages the power of form support to add products to a shopping cart...
Getting Yahoo! Mail To Fix Their CSS Parser
I filed a bug report on Yahoo! Mail's infamous CSS Parser. If you're tired of adding media query hacks , feel free to let Yahoo! Mail know with a simple tweet!
How To Get Office 365 Webmail (Outlook Web App) For A Year For Cheap
If you've been thinking of getting an Office 365 Webmail account for your email tests, here's a way to get it for cheap.
As many of you know Microsoft's Office 365 Webmail better known as Outlook Web App or OWA is a different beast than Outlook.com. Office 365/OWA has a lot more quirks than Outlook.com and generally supports a smaller set of CSS...
Gmail iOS Increases Email Font Sizes – Again
Gmail is increasing font sizes on emails in their iOS app - again. Gmail first rolled out this change a month ago but rolled it back 3 days later. However, sad to say it looks like we're going to have to deal with this once more.
‘Hamburger’ Collapsible Menu in Email
Jerry Martinez posted on the Litmus Community forum that he had implemented a version of the hamburger menu in emails. I thought it was so awesome that I just had to share it!