Microsoft have just confirmed they plan on using the crippled Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010.

This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position and no background images. Not to mention the long list of bugs and quirks that break the simplest of layouts.

Outlook 2010 is still in beta and Microsoft have confirmed they want to hear your feedback on this decision. It’s time for the email marketing and design community to rally together and encourage Microsoft to embrace web standards before it’s too late.

Visit fixoutlook.org to see how you can help and what the community is saying right now.

We’re happy to announce we have officially launched the new Dirty Pretty Edmonton website.

Have a look at it here: http://www.dirtypretty.ca
There is also a Dirty Pretty Twitter page you can follow: http://twitter.com/dirty_pretty

LinkedIn has now added companies “beta”

Check it out: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/348051

Not really web design or Edmonton related but check out this screen from the new Iron Man Film.