A message to the Gmail team

Envy my job! I spent a few hours putting together the above video for the Email Standards Project, a community effort to improve the way HTML and CSS is rendered in major email clients. Gmail in particular has made some odd decisions as far as stripping out all CSS except the inline styles.

You can find out more about the current state of affairs at the Email Standards Project reports pages, and I'd recommend visiting.

This was a fun project for me, I developed a few new skills on the way,combining iPhoto, Garage Band and iMovie to put it all together. I was also very impressed with Vimeo, it has a fantastic interface and truly smooth signup process. Watch out for a future post following up on Vimeo.

If you know anybody at Google, make sure you point them to http://www.email-standards.org/gmail-appeal for me!

April 09, 2008