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Kris - 17 Oct 2006 18:29 GMT

I can understand the word 2007 capabilities document. It says that using
background:url(image here) will not work, as it is not supported. My question
is...why? Also, when?
Why not support it? When will it be implemented. Why would you just skip
that over? Is it just not implemented, or will it never be implemented?
If this feature, and the many CSS tags listed in the unsupported section of
the capabilities chart are never going to be supported....then I think I'll
reconsider my decision to purchase office 2007 when it comes out, because
that's rediculous.

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Kris - 02 Nov 2006 16:37 GMT

Interesting...either no one knows or no one cares about what I posted over a
week ago. I'd have thought that it would be more of an issue, seeing as how
disabling background:url (and the 50 other css tags word 2007 doesnt support)
would pretty much make anything but plain text email useless.

> I can understand the word 2007 capabilities document. It says that using
> background:url(image here) will not work, as it is not supported. My question
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> reconsider my decision to purchase office 2007 when it comes out, because
> that's rediculous.

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Leo - 10 Nov 2006 10:03 GMT

I'm in the same boat Kris- I think the css capabilities on Wordmail are
pretty bad- I've just proposed a stationery design to my client, and they
loved it- but they can't use it because they all use wordmail, and the
stationery file utilised css background and a table background - neither of
these work in WordMail.

Shame...and 'why not' is a great question..

> Interesting...either no one knows or no one cares about what I posted over a
> week ago. I'd have thought that it would be more of an issue, seeing as how
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> > reconsider my decision to purchase office 2007 when it comes out, because
> > that's rediculous.

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UberNerd - 29 Nov 2006 03:16 GMT

I definitely agree...an email that validates as XHTML strict is absolutely
destroyed by Outlook 2007. This is going to make it very difficult to create
good looking email newsletters.

It seems like a very backward step to remove CSS support almost entirely
from Outlook...why is Microsoft doing this and how do they suggest we work
around it?

I can see this creating huge dramas across the design industry and design
businesses can no-longer offer their clients the css inspired designs that
they are only just starting to love.

> I'm in the same boat Kris- I think the css capabilities on Wordmail are
> pretty bad- I've just proposed a stationery design to my client, and they
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> > > reconsider my decision to purchase office 2007 when it comes out, because
> > > that's rediculous.

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