Subscription emails too wide?
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I run two blogs on wordpress.com that are meant to provide daily readings, (Daily Confession and Daily Westminster, actually three if you include Daily Dr. Fun)and as such are well-suited to email subscriptions. For the past few years, I used feedburner to provide email subscriptions, but I was delighted when wordpress.com introduced email subscriptions.
However, the email subscriptions, as delivered in HTML, are formatted too wide. The HTML source includes “<body … min-width: 800px; max-width: 1024px;…>”, which is too large for my situation (below), which means I have to use the horizontal scrollbar to read the whole thing, which is super-annoying. Why does min-width have to be 800? Wouldn’t 400 be sufficient? Why not eliminate min-width altogether, and allow the user to force the post to render as ridiculously and unreadably skinny as he wants?
Details: On Windows XP, Chrome (3.0.195.38) lives fullscreen in a second, portrait-rotated 1280×1024 monitor, and I guess gmail has more than 224 pixels of left-matter, so the email subscription body pushes out to the right and forces the horizontal scroll-bar. Same problem with Firefox (3.0.15), but not with IE (6.0), I guess because Bill Gates doesn’t respect the min/max-width directives.
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I have noticed the same issue; however, this has been changed very recently. Prior to that, the emails looked really exceptional in formatting; not just the width but the image placement was also perfect (when you place your image on the right hand side of the blog post, the email would reflect it correctly. Now the image placement is also broken – images shift to left regardless).
I checked with the support directly and their rational is that not all email clients support CSS features equally so they had to adjust few things. The width also increased when the appropriately placed images disappeared.
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The formatting of emails needs to be suitable for the majority of email clients and site content. I will look into the width, further suggestions for formatting improvements are best sent to support.
ismailimail, as previously discussed, the image placement is not broken.
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The formatting of emails needs to be suitable for the majority of email clients and site content.
I would suggest that gmail in a 1024-pixel wide browser is a reasonable client. Even bumping the min-width down to 600px should do the trick.
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@allnoodles, I stand corrected. The images are out of place when I look at it in Gmail. I have not looked at other email clients. I don’t see any issues since you have a good consensus.
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same problem here. i use gmail and the emails are totally off now.. they looked great before (((
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WordPress, thank you for fixing the floating images, the email looks beautiful in Gmail now. Images aligning properly.
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