#MJML GMAIL CODE#
It took the new email template I was working on from something like 800-900 lines of code to 160 of easy-to-look-at code.But most importantly, despite MJML being yet-another-tool-in-the-chain, I think the technical debt is quite a bit lower. The fact that you can author the email with a preview right in VS Code is pretty damn great. zLCHafDI2a- Chris Coyier September 21, 2022 NOTE: Use the “MJML (unofficial fork)” VS Code plugin, not the official one which is pretty busted. I’m pretty sold on after trying to fight Outlook problems manually too long.Īuthoring right in VS Code with a preview is pretty sweet. Rather than author directly in HTML, you use tags like and and it processes into HTML that is Outlook friendly. MJML has been on my radar for a while, so I thought I’d give that a go instead. The complication was too high, I would be the only one who really understood what mattered in this massive awkward template, and maintaining it would be too much to ask. After poking around at it for weeks trying to get it into really solid shape, I ultimately decided all this was just way too much technical debt to take on. This was going fine for a while, it just was finicky as all hell. I’d make a bunch of changes trying to get the template in shape, then test it all in Litmus to check if I was on the right track. I started with this and actually got pretty far just doing it all by hand. That would work for our basic 2-column format. MailChimp has some very old but very still functional email templates on GitHub, so I started there. I didn’t feel good to leave behind what I consider pretty normal and mostly semantic markup for whatever the hell Outlook needs, but hey, the job is delivering good experiences, not theoretical purity. The layout wasn’t just a little bad, it was super duper bad. But we got just enough reports from Outlook users that it bugged me. I used normal s and CSS and essentially designed a simple modern website, media queries and all, as the email. In our latest CodePen Spark template, I basically ignored Outlook. I’ll just continue to say “Outlook” in this post, but what I mean is the bad Outlook(s). Let’s hope One Outlook actually pans out.
#MJML GMAIL WINDOWS#
But Outlook on Windows is still mega popular, so here we are. The gist of it is: Outlook as a Native Windows app. Just “Outlook” isn’t quite fair though, it’s “Outlook that uses the Microsoft Word rendering engine”, which is a subset of Outlook email clients. Without it, HTML email development could take a leap forward. The thing that requires markup because of how many limitations it has. It’s solely the thing that keeps HTML email development painful. You probably know this: Outlook is the worst.
The 2nd most popular email client to open The Spark is Outlook, just behind Gmail. It goes out every week to millions of developers. The CodePen Spark is a fairly big deal for CodePen.
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