Email clients have quirks that force you to use <table> elements, inline styles, and follow other bad practices that make development complicated.

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An email is essentially just an HTML document, like a web page, except it's visualized in an email client, rather than a web browser. Both browsers and email clients rendered HTML pretty much the same way and had the same functionalities. While web standards evolved and browsers started implementing them, email clients didn't change much.

Why Does Email Development Have to Suck?

<p>My first gig as a frontend dev was to build an email template. The experience was really bad, and I kept asking myself this same question throughout the process lmao. Great read btw!</p>
