Re: FLASH: Getting the mailto: to work!

[Bernie Goldbach]

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.


If you want to ensure that you get mail from a web page link, you have to

plan to use a CGI script or some kind of server side action. There is no

other work-around.


regards from Dublin,

Bernie Goldbach

dreamweaverinteractive-avenue [dot] ie

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