Rollover or Tap to Reveal Technique in Email
Posted in Email, Interactive Email, Interactive Email Tutorials, Kinetic Email by Justin On July 31, 2015
Here's a way to implement a neat "rollover to reveal" message in email. You can send an email that has a teaser cover message that when the recipient hovers the cursor over the message it reveals a hidden surprise message...
How To Hide Checkbox And Radio Inputs In Email
Hidden checkbox and radio inputs are becoming a staple way to introduce interactivity in email. Here's a simple way to hide these elements in all email clients...
Android and iOS9 General Sibling Selector (~) Bug
In my experiment's I've often found that certain native Android (4.x) email clients do not support the general sibling selector (~). The general sibling selector is handy because it offers more creative freedom than the adjacent sibling (+) selector...
The Dawn of Kinetic Email
B&Q, a major UK retailer, attracted a lot of attention last year when the company sent a series of emails that featured fully interactive components using just HTML and CSS. In a press release, Oracle, the developer of the campaigns coined the
Nest’s Email Carousels
Recently Google's Nest sent not one, not two but three(!) interactive emails containing image carousels to announce their new products - a new web cam, an updated smoke alarm and mobile apps. The designers of the email Jonathan Chinchilla and Eric Lepetit
Gallery of Common Outlook Rendering Issues
The following are side-by-side screenshots comparing how some emails rendered in Outlook vs another mainstream email client such as Yahoo! Mail or Gmail. I have annotated the images to refer to the issues in the test email above...
The Outlook Team Reaches Out
I was recently contacted by Julia Foran a Program Manager on the Desktop Outlook team for some background on Outlook's rendering issues.
It must have been the Microsoft, It's Time to Address Outlook's Proprietary Email Format article or the needling
Behold the Watch-HTML Mime Type for Apple Watch
Litmus just published a post on how you can create content that is specifically meant for the Apple Watch. Read on for some key takeaways...
Microsoft, It’s Time to Address Outlook’s Proprietary Email Format
At the recent Build Developer Conference, Microsoft revealed their new tagline: Empower every developer.
I just posted an article on LinkedIn to remind Microsoft that email developers and designers still aren't feeling empowered since we're still stuck with Word HTML in Outlook.
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I just posted an article on LinkedIn to remind Microsoft that email developers and designers still aren't feeling empowered since we're still stuck with Word HTML in Outlook.
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Yahoo! Mail Removes CSS Under Comments. Here’s How To Take Advantage Of It.
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