Base Tag Not Supported In Hotmail

It’s interesting how the <base> works in various clients. I thought all major web clients would support it, but apparently it is not the case.

Let’s look at how some email clients process this tag:

Base tags are modified by their mail server and relative URLs are changed to absolute. So it works.

Base tags are modified by their mail server and relative URLs are changed to absolute. So it works.

Base tags are shown and its functionality is intact. URLs remain relative. So it works.

Base tags are shown and its functionality is intact. URLs remain relative. So it works. More info on iMS.

Can’t see the HTML, but all URLs worked.

Unfortunately, this is the ugly duckling. Hotmail servers remove the base tag and leave your relative links as relative. Big FAIL.

Dan View All

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