Other vulnerabilities inherent in HTML e-mail include the ability to run Visual Basic scripts, ActiveX controls, and Macromedia flash, all of which can execute unauthorized and unsafe code.

The Twitter protest again Microsoft Outlook is losing steam, but the question remains: Is HTML e-mail dangerous or is Microsoft using security as a reason not to comply with Web standards?

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The post features a side-by-side comparison of a typical HTML e-mail, and the comparison makes it look as if Outlook 2007 is unable to do CSS altogether.

In previous versions of Microsoft Outlook (the classic app), you could view the HTML code of an email by opening the email, right-clicking on it, and selecting “View source” from the context menu.

Yahoo used its recent "Hack Day" to springboard its opening of substantial chunks of code to software developers, highlighted by the application programming interface of Yahoo's widely-used Web e-mail ...

Marketers like HTML e-mail marketing campaigns because they look good and they get a solid response rate. Though the industry still lacks quantitative research about the relative effectiveness of ...