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Email on Acid
Company blog · emailonacid.com/blogwebdesign
Email on Acid is the company blog at emailonacid.com, writing about web and design. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Email on Acid's blog and its email-client testing service for HTML email development, including responsive email layout and rendering checks. One commenter lists its blog among useful resources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Email on Acid, the leading email pre-deployment suite has evolved. Introducing the next generation of Email On Acid: Mailgun Inspect.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-07
What Hacker News says?
Here are some resources I have found useful regarding email newsletters. Some of these seem to have some nice advice about how to test, how to aid user interaction too: - http://www.htmlemailgallery.com/ - http://litmus.com/blog/ - http://blog.mailchimp.com/ - http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/tips-resources - http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/ - http://www.emailology.org/ - http://www.emailonacid.com/blog - http…
Comment linking /blog
on “Show HN: Responsive Email Templates”Submitted The Basics of Email Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRelated: "The Fab Four Technique to Create Responsive Emails Without Media Queries"[0] which has been trending on Reddit, but failed to gain traction here. A really neat and broadly compatible[1] method. 0. https://medium.com/@hteumeuleu/the-fab-four-technique-to-cre... 1. https://www.emailonacid.com/app/acidtest/display/summary/qTZ...
Comment linking /app/acidtest/display/summary/qTZqWDjsZgysgtYYv6BzbQaRr7jSx9UmhbBqS9Piweusw/shared
on “MJML – Responsive Email Framework”Submitted Mozify, say goodbye to image blocking in emails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou need a farm of machines that run the actual mail clients, to do that reliably. https://www.emailonacid.com/ is such a service.
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on “Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers”Submitted Building an Interactive Email Game as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDespite the terrible name, I've been pretty happy with competitor https://www.emailonacid.com/ (it's also cheaper). I like that they show you a preview of how the message looks without images too -- that's how many people will first encounter it.
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on “Bulletproof HTML Email Components”Submitted Email Testing and Email Preview – Email on Acid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThese guys already did something like that - https://www.emailonacid.com/mozify
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on “Img2css: convert any image into a CSS “image” using only box shadows”Submitted If your site's emails are not downloading on ipad/iphone as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI found out some years ago that emails that have the fancy features like plane tickets embedded or tracking information are all done with JSON-LD in the emails. AFAIK only gmail supports it, though. EDIT: some more info about it: https://www.emailonacid.com/blog/article/email-development/s...
Comment linking /blog/article/email-development/schema-markup-gmail/
on “JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites”Submitted HTML Email Format Testing and Previews as a story · 1 points
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