Version 2.0.0 RC1 — Plitvice

This is our first public release of Foundation for Emails 2.0! If you're just joining us, here's what's new:

• A Sass-powered codebase with a full set of variables
• New components, including callouts, menus, and thumbnails
• A full email build system with Sass support, image compression, BrowserSync, and email inlining.
• A new templating language, Inky, which converts simple HTML tags into full email-ready tables.

How to Get Started

To get started, you'll need Node.js installed on your computer (a plain CSS version is coming soon!). Then download our Foundation for Emails template and follow the install instructions in the readme.

Or, if you have the Foundation CLI, update it to the latest version with npm update foundation-cli --global, and you can install Emails templates with the foundation new command.

Once you've got everything set up, check out our example templates, with code samples for every component. The readme also includes an overview of the syntax for Inky, our new templating language.

How to Contribute

Here are the goals of the Release Candidate and how you can get involved:

• Build email layouts and report on issues found.
• Test what you build to ensure it works with supported clients.
• Jump in on conversations relating to workflows and decision making for the framework.

These are the ways you can contribute:

• Comment on the feedback threads: We created some very specific threads to collect feedback on. Your feedback and questions will be addressed there and influence the framework.
• Open a GitHub issue: Open an issue for any bugs you encounter so we can fix them before the next release on Feb 26th.
• Submit a Pull Request: See an issue on the docs or something that just doesn’t work the way you’d expect? A pull request is the best way to be one of the first to be part of the new Foundation for Emails.

Based on your feedback, and pull requests we'll be pushing weekly updates.

Next Steps

We'll be releasing new release candidates every Friday for the next few weeks, until the framework ships in March.

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Doc Improvements and Bug Fixes

• Add .sub-grid class to enable the use of sub-grids with panels
• Add paragraph .lede class
• Lower specificity on .panel class to allw its use on
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• Partially patch docs examples to work in Firefox
• Normalize font rendering in s for Outlook 2007/2010/2013
• Fix 100% width issue on iPad
• Remove offset-sub-columns
• Remove proprietary tags from templates
• Fix issue with .one.sub-columns sections
• Expand the Getting Started section of the docs
• Add full-width row example to the docs
• Add offset-columns example to the docs
• Add additional panel examples to the docs
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and typo fixes

Aliases and Outlook Fixes

• Apply font styles more uniformly to fix clients that strip out the tag (fixes inliner preview)
• Remove percentage based padding on sub-grid (fixes Outlook 2000/2002/2003)
• Add Bower package metadata
• Remove min-width for tags nested under the sub-grid
• Add helper aliases to .text-pad classes (ex. .left-text-pad can now be called using .text-pad-left)
• Fix .text-pad classes nested under aliased .column tables
• Remove deprecated button syntax
• Fix link color in headings for Outlook 2007/2010/2013

Readability Tweaks

• Add text-pad classes
• Lower heading sizes to more reasonable defaults
• Add compatibility chart of supported/tested clients to the docs

Outlook Button Patch

• Switch to new button syntax to fully support Microsoft Outlook
• Add changelog to Docs

Minor patch

Adds center tag formatting to prevent centered items from crushing to their minimum width on the Gmail mobile app.

Initial Release

v1.0.0

Bump to 1.0.0 release