Why is email HTML stuck in the 90's?

Posted by Sean Dunwoody on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Sean Dunwoody
Published on 2012-10-26T09:30:20Z Indexed on 2012/10/26 11:18 UTC
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(disclaimer - I've already tried asking this on StackOverflow, but apparently it was off topic. If the same is true here please let me know and I'll close/delete this question.)

I've spent about a day putting together a frustrating email newsletter, using tables, inline styles etc. It feels a lot harder than it should be.

I was just wondering, is there any reason why email clients have such poor support of HTML and CSS (CSS in particular)? I would have imagined they'd be scrambling to outdo each other in this department ...

Is is a security thing (I can't really imagine why)? Or are they just lazy?

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