{"id":6053,"date":"2016-11-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litmus.com\/blog\/freenet-de-previews-now-available-in-litmus-heres-how-it-displays-your-emails\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:33:43","slug":"freenet-de-previews-now-available-in-litmus-heres-how-it-displays-your-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litmus.com\/blog\/freenet-de-previews-now-available-in-litmus-heres-how-it-displays-your-emails","title":{"rendered":"Freenet.de Previews Now Available in Litmus\u2014Here’s How it Displays Your Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"

When sending email internationally, local email clients can add a fair amount of complexity to the email design and testing process. This is especially true in countries where local inbox providers make up a large portion of the market, giving email marketers no choice but to optimize their email for local clients to ensure a smooth experience for their subscribers.<\/p>\n

Germany is such an example: Less than 20% of Germans opt for one of the global players<\/a> like Gmail (6.2%), Outlook (9.4%) or AOL (3.8%), but read their email through one of the local inbox providers. While GMX and WEB.de<\/a>, the most popular local providers, account for more than half of all German inboxes, there is also a range of other local clients that marketers who\u2019re sending to a German audience just can\u2019t ignore.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, we\u2019re thrilled to announce the most recent addition to our Instant Previews: Freenet.de. With a market share of 3.8%, Freenet.de ranks 9th on the list of most popular inbox providers in Germany (but it could be more for your audience!).<\/p>\n

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What does your email look like in Freenet.de?<\/h2>\n

Instantly preview your email in the Freenet.de webmail client in Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Safari with Litmus.<\/p>\n

Test your email \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Just getting started with building email for Freenet.de? Here\u2019s what you need to know about the Freenet.de inbox and how it renders email.<\/p>\n

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The Freenet.de inbox view, with the preview pane displayed on the bottom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The good news first: Freenet.de overall shows solid support for HTML and CSS. Even though it doesn\u2019t allow for progressive enhancements like HTML5 video or advanced interactivity, support for animations, web fonts<\/a>, and media queries<\/a> still allow designers to get creative while making sure that their emails render across clients, including Freenet.de.<\/p>\n

The Inbox View<\/h2>\n
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Subject line length<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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No hard character limit. Depends on browser width.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Emoji support<\/a> in subject line<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Preview text<\/a> support<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-green\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Preview text length<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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n\/a<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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From name length<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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> 90 characters<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Auto-Sorting (folders or tabs)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Inbox and Spam. No differentiation between promotional & personal email<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

The Message View<\/h2>\n
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Preview pane support<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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3-panel view: Email displays below the inbox by default, but can be moved to the right or switched off entirely.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Width of window for email<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Preview pane at bottom: 835px
\nPreview pane on right: 568px.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Length of email (Is it clipped?)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-green\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

HTML and CSS Support<\/h2>\n
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The Basics<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Style support in head<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Media query<\/a> support<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-green\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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CSS attribute selector support<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Classes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Ids<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Images and Visuals<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Images enabled<\/a> by default?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Animated GIF<\/a> support<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-green\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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ALT text support<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-green\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Styled ALT text<\/a> support<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\"check-X\"<\/div>\n
*<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Background images support<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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HTML5 video support<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Spacing<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Padding<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Margin<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-green\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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max-width<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Typography<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Headers<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Paragraphs<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-green\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Web fonts<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Progressive Enhancement<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Border Radius<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Interactivity \u2014 checkbox\/ radio button support<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-green\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Animation \u2014 transitions\/keyframe animation support<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"check-X\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

* supports font-size, line-height, color, font-weight, and text-align<\/p>\n

We’d love to hear from you<\/h2>\n

Did you discover a rendering quirk in Freenet.de that we missed? Struggling with a code question specific to Freenet.de? Let us know in Community!<\/p>\n

Start a discussion\u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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