tedster - 4:44 am on Jan 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

the code that Word export

Yes, Word exports awful code. However, this news is actually the flip side of that issue. We're talking about how Word RENDERS html and css, no matter how that code was originally created. You can get some idea of the limitations by opening an html file in Word, instead of in your browser. It certainly does have "limitations."

I sometime ask non-technical clients to open a web page that they want to edit in Word, and make the changes they want in that doc -- with "track changes" turned on to highlight for me where their edits are. So I have been up close and personal with the way that the Word rendering engine can mangle valid and relatively simple html+css.

This news makes me very happy that I've kept most clients away from html emails.