Re: FLASH: Getting the mailto: to work!

[Chris]

Bernie Goldbach wrote:


> Michal Wynn asked for thoughts about his simple 2 scene Flash file that has

> two buttons on it. The first button simply switches states on rollover for a

> visual effect, and the second is a line of text which is turned into a

>

button symbol for the on click action of mailhk5 [dot] com (mailto:mailhk5 [dot] com)

>

> The button won't launch the email client in Netscape.

>

> That's normal. Microsoft supports the mailto action but that's not compliant

> with protocols set by http://www.w3c.org . Netscape doesn't support mailto,

> at least in versions at or before level 4. I don't know about NN 4.5 or NN

> 4.6.


as long as Netscape has the Communicator component it should work. Navigator

doesn't have an email client. At a station at work we have NS(Navigator) 4 (no

email client) .... when an email adress is clicked, MS Outlook launches for

email automaticaly ... same in IE. This may be just a Mac thing ... how it

automatically detects that Outlook is an email app, I dunno ... I sure as heck

didn't tell my computer it was an email app.



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