Comments on: Outlook 2007 – When is 200 pixels not 200 pixels? Spacer gifs

By: zack

zack — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:39:43 +0000

anyone tried to reverse engineer word’s image rendering? how does this possibly happen? thanks for the save!

By: Esteban

Esteban — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:26:28 +0000

Thank you so much for this post, it helped me figure why in the world outlook 07 wasn’t displaying my spacers correctly (such a pain!) again thank you!

By: Amir

Amir — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:02:41 +0000

Thank you so much! I spent 2 hours rebuilding my template over and over not understanding what was wrong, 10px by 10px did the trick! This seems to effect aol users as well. Not sure who’s still using aol but anyway…

By: Mr C

Mr C — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:09:45 +0000

Thanks for this awesome tip!

I always used to think that they reverted to Word because of the security hole ridden IE6, but the answer is much simpler:

The reason why Microsoft reverted to the Word HTML rendering engine is because without it, Outlook would not be able to display fancy Word-style formatting like SmartArt, Charts and WordArt.

But what is the point of using those functions unless the recipient also uses Outlook 2007?

The monopoly strikes again.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:42:51 +0000

Wow, Thanks. This is a BIG life saver for my customers and me.

By: James A

James A — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:15:50 +0000

How the hello can microsoft shaft us like this? – MS word to render emails? – Don’t make me laugh.

Do you think that MS will ever admit defeat and go back to more sensible rendering as seen in firefox or even IE7?

By: Noel

Noel — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:21:33 +0000

A colleague of mine was having no end of trouble with this problem – and I couldn’t find anything wrong with her code (because there WAS nothing wrong with it). Solved. Thanks Ian!

By: Al Stevens

Al Stevens — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:00:18 +0000

Thank you, thank you – this was driving me to despair. No other resources out there seem to have picked this up, and it is at the heart of using ’spacer gif’ layouts.

By: Pedro Escudero

Pedro Escudero — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:43:16 +0000

Thanks!! this is so great, for those trying to use photoshop slices, should solve many issues.

I sent a mail some hours ago and some clients complained about bad look on outlook 2007, now i just changed the 1px x 1px spacer for the 10×10 images and bu a la!! its solved! on line!!

thanks!

By: Ivar Larsson

Ivar Larsson — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:22:24 +0000

Incredible…. Thanks for this find!

I hate word and it’s silly excuse for a css/html renderer.