The Real Story Behind HTML Support in Outlook 2007
January 27, 2007 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
You may remember an article I wrote awhile back that talked about the changes to HTML support in Outlook 2007. They stopped using the IE7 rendering engine in favor of using the Word HTML engine. Doesn’t make much sense does it?
Molly E. Holzschlag took it upon herself to investigate the issue further and get a direct answer from Microsoft on the reason for the change.
To that end I took the question to colleagues at Microsoft in order to see what I could find out. I have to admit that after having been so focused on working with IE7 and other prioritizations, it never occurred to me or anyone else at WaSP in the Microsoft / WaSP Task Force to even ask about rendering in Office products. What a kerfuffle, as Lou would tell Andy in Little Britain.
You can read her post, What Really Happened with HTML and CSS in Outlook 2007, on her website and get all the details. It still doesn’t make sense to me though on their reasons for the change.
