Hey @Ben, Daniel from ZURB here! Foundation for Emails was hunted previously, but that was a rebrand of Ink. We've been working on this new version for over a year now. Here's what's new in Foundation for Emails 2:
• A fully flexible grid — even on small screens! That means you can create any number of columns and have a fully flexible small grid. We’re starting to really close the gap between developing websites and emails using the Foundation Family!
• Built with Sass. This means you can wield the powers that come packaged with Sass including variables, mixins and partials!
• New templating language - Inky! Say goodbye to sifting through hundreds of pesky table tags. With Inky you can write tags like “row” and “columns” to spit out six table tags needed to just get the skeleton of your email together.
• Helpful UI components: Foundation for Emails 2 shares many of the same components users of Foundation for Sites will be familiar with including Row, Columns, Callouts, Inline Lists, Vertical Lists, Block Grid, Thumbnails
•Inline all of the styles. There’s a handy Gulp task that inlines all your CSS for you from a remote stylesheet.
• Handlebars to keep you on track: We’ve included the support of Handlebars templates to keep you from repeating yourself! Things like the header and footer of your email can stay the same, allowing you to change only the content that matters!
Loads of other new features as well as 10 new templates.
Thanks!
-Daniel
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@mrcodella Looks promising. ll definitely try it out. Congrats! :)
@aakarpost Thank you Aakar! We hope you find it useful!
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Nice work, @mrcodella and team!
Sniffed through the repository and it looks wonderful. Inky as an abstraction is a great step towards cleaner mailer builds. I see some previous commenters have asked about adding "custom" components to Inky—that'll be a great addition and adding that in looks like something you guys have envisioned already. :thumbsup:
As this is a JavaScript project, I'm curious if you guys have tried packaging it for the web (i.e., creating a Browserify bundle)? One of the challenges we find with these fantastic toolsets, is that Gulp tasks might be a high hurdle for an email coder. Do you guys find that to be so or perhaps people pick it up quickly? I'd be curious to see how a web interface compiling Inky might assist with adoption.
Also wondering about support for Hybrid movement—I didn't dig too deep into Inky but didn't see MSO conditionals wrapping the `container`—or is this primarily a media-query based approach for the Responsive aspects?
Thanks for providing this for the community and keep it up!
@tbuchok We successfully Browserified our web inliner (http://foundation.zurb.com/email...), and we'd like to try the same for Inky eventually.
If there are ways we could get it to, say, compile and inline entirely in the browser, and then you copy/paste the source code into Litmus, that could be really interesting.
I've never used one of these. If you're sending mail from a Rails stack, how do you recommend using it?
Also, would be interesting to see an email provider have Foundation built in for designing templates in-browser (such as mandrill or mailgun). This seems much better than what most providers have currently for templating.
@mscccc Currently you'd probably write your email within the ZURB stack, compile it to html, and then put it into rails and insert your ERB... however, we're working on a ruby version of Inky that will integrate cleanly with the asset pipeline, so you'd be able to just write a template as my_email.html.inky.erb. If you'd like to be involved in helping finish this up and/or test it as it gets close, email us at foundation (at) zurb.com
@kbal11@mscccc This is awesome...if I'm on the mailing list, will I find out when this (ruby gem) is released?
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As an avid user of Ink and Foundation for Emails (1) I have to say I am incredibly stoked for this release!
The new Inky Templating engine with SASS and Handlebars is so awesome. It feels like I am actually designing emails in 2016 now instead of 1996.
Gulp now to automate and speed up development instead of some copy-paste madness.
Awesome work, this is the way to make emails. I also love the new site for this update, it has way more detail and better documentation then before.
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I've used Foundation for emails for a while now...and though I've always really enjoyed it, and referred it as a service to friends - it seems to lack the ongoing support & updates that it needs. Foundation for email no longer works on my local machine, and a quick google search displays that I'm not the only one.
Thank you for providing such an awesome product to anyone & everyone for FREE...hopefully it's not a dead project.
@stewartjarod At the moment it's possible to rename the existing tags, but not create your own. We'd like to eventually make Inky's parser a bit more modular, so folks could define their own components. For example, the full bulletproof button with all of the wild Outlook-specific syntax.
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