The best way to send an HTML email through Entourage is via MS Word. Entourage’s HTML editing engine is very basic. It is impossible to make text a link, ie you can’t make Telos Studios a link to http://www.telosstudios.com. It will automatically make URLs in text links, which is not adequate.

After you’ve created your email message in Word, goto File > Send To > Mail Recipient (as HTML) … That should do it. This method will also allow you to send tables, images, and other more complex HTML.

WIRED’s creative director Scott Dadich coined a new term called the Law of Optical Volumes, which basically states that for maximum readability the area between two adjacent letters must be equal throughout the document. This is controlled via kerning. Web fonts don’t have tremendous support for it yet, so I am not going to delve too deep into it just yet.

WIRED also has a new logo and site design. The former is okay. The latter is blah.

IE5 for the Mac was canceled nearly 4 years ago. I haven’t seen it show up in my server logs for quite sometime. IE5 Mac is dead, dead, dead. This means that the Comment Backslash Hack or Mac Hack and the IE5 Mac Band Pass Filter are retired. You will never see a hack like this in my css files again:

/* Hides from IE5-mac */
* html .buggybox {height: 1%;}
/* End hide from IE5-mac */


Yeah for dead and dying CSS hacks.

All versions of Internet Explorer prior to 7 cannot correctly display the transparent PNG-24 images. In place of the transparent pixels are light gray pixels. The solution that I like the most is called the IE PNG Alpha Fix. It uses a .htc file that corrects the behavior of IE using javascript. The fix also requires the a CSS hook:

* { behavior: url(iepngfix.htc); }

I have used this solution on a couple of projects now, it works well and doesn’t require gratuitous HTML hackery.