Acknowledgements

Making modern, responsive emails require many techniques, fixes and workarounds pioneered by generous forward-thinkers in the email community. If you browse Inkcite’s code you’ll find frequent comments that reference the original source of a rendering fix or responsive technique. If perusing Ruby code isn’t your thing, here’s a list of the individuals and companies (in alphabetical order) whose solutions are put to use by Inckite:

Thank You

• Brian Graves (@briangraves) for his open-source Responsive Email Patterns and his article on content choreography in responsive emails.
• Courtney Fantinato (@CourtFantinato) for her technique for fluid-hybrid images.
• Eli Dickinson (@esd) for Make Your Emails Look Better on iPhone.
• Elliot Ross (@iamelliot) at ActionRocket for Using Web Fonts in Email.
• Email on Acid (@EmailonAcid) for their image swapping technique for mobile images and a large number of fixes and tweaks to perfect rendering in many email clients.
• Jason Rodriguez’s (@RodriguezCommaJ) Email as an Open Book post for inspiring us to open-source Inkcite.
• Joes Friedlaender (@jfriedlaender) for his Ruby algorithm for adjusting hex colors.
• Lee Munroe (@leemunroe) for his invisible preheader technique.
• Litmus (@litmus) for their community, Email Design Conference, compatibility testing and analytics APIs, plus the countless hours their whole team spends educating and helping the community.
• James Macwhite (@jamesmacwhite) for enabling CSS3 media queries on Windows Phones and his fix for off-center emails in Android 4.4 KitKat.
• Nicole Merlin (@moonstrips) for her tutorial on fluid-hybrid responsive emails without media queries.
• Ros Hodgekiss (@yarrcat) and the whole team at Campaign Monitor (@campaignmonitor) for their tutorial on centered responsive design without media queries plus countless other fixes and tweaks they’ve blogged or talked about on Twitter.

Helpers and other parts of Inkcite that are informed from #emailsgeeks are noted throughout the documentation.