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My dears, I haven't written an article since at least ten past midnight! Hello how tired I am! You know how it is... Holidays, back to school, kids crying, curling... In short, the routine! But there is ONE event that any good #emailgeek or email marketing enthusiast could not ignore this fall...
It all started at the SmashingConf .
It was on September 9 and 10, in Freiburg im Breisgau, straight to Germany as it were. Rémi Parmentier, aka hteumeuleuwho gave a lecture entitled " Think like an Email Geek" . A whole program. A very exciting conference (in my opinion) addressing among other things accessibility, innovation, code, the behavior of some mail clients ... A conference full of humor (with subtle and sublime Jurassic Park references, puns)full of concrete cases and experiences! Well, I'll stop the ointment, you already know all the good I think of this man...
What was the name of the very first Egyptian integrator? Allânthablo.
Rémi Parmentier
But what you may not know, and this is the purpose of this article, is that Rémi presented a new tooldeveloped by the gentleman himself (and with the help of Mark Robbins and the RebelMail). I have named :
Can I email
I might as well tell you that the room exploded. "It was jubilation and madness. Pants flew off and blouses were torn off." At least that's what I imagine... And that's what the outburst of the community on social networks could imply: tweets at all costs, and even from big accounts like The Moderator's Blog or CSS Tricks (we are talking about an account with more than 400k subscribers, we are not on the account of Jean-Michel from the accountancy...)
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The craze is such that I heard that the number of visitors on the site in question was going crazy... But enough of suspense: What can such a site contain that is new to the field of email marketing? Hadn't everything already been done?
A precise and justified support table
This is the strength of caniemail.com. Where " The Ultimate Guide to CSS" by Campaign Monitor is getting old, and does not justify the support of this or that CSS property via access to tests, Can I email relies on the no less famous caniuse.com to access, via a search field, the results of the media as well as CSS properties and HTML elements in HTML email integration ! And the guy offers an access to the test code and results on EmailonAcid... I say "Wow, the felon has thought of everything!
Concretely: is the tool complete?
If the tool went through a 1st beta phase accessible only to a certain number of privileged people (Just kidding, by participating in the slack emailgeeksYou could discover it in advance... At least I think so...)We are now on a well-developed version, but which only asks to evolve!
Because the list of CSS properties and HTML tags to test is big, as you know! And that's what makes it so interesting: everyone can participate in their own way: by calling the team with mail or on Twitter on particularities, on personal tests, private experiences... In short, this is only the beginning of the adventure. Come on, I let you discover this nugget without further delay. Tenderness and chocolate, I love you naughty!
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Thanks for sharing, Thomas. (And for the salve, but frankly, I don't deserve that much.)