ozmanjusri's Journal: Outlook 2007 not so good.

Microsoft has released details of the new Outlook mail client, and revealed that they will be using the MS Word rendering engine to display HTML email messages.

That means the Outlook will inherit the same HTML and cascading style sheets (CSS) support as Word 2007. Some of the limitations that will bring include;

* no support for background images (HTML or CSS)
* no support for forms
* no support for Flash, or other plugins
* no support for CSS floats
* no support for replacing bullets with images in unordered lists
* no support for CSS positioning
* no support for animated GIFs

While many Slashdotters will question the value of any HTML email, let's remember that choice has already been made by most non-technical email users, and keep this on-topic.

More details on Kevin Yank's Sitepoint blog