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Subject: RE: FLASH: mailto tag in Flash
From: Williams, Marcus
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 20:50:46 +0100

Nope.
A mailto: command is recognized by the browser as a mail command and then
passes it off the mail handler.
Marcus

-----Original Message-----
From: Ren� Brouwer [reneatbrouwermedia [dot] com (mailto:reneatbrouwermedia [dot] com)]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 3:28 PM
To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: mailto tag in Flash


On 5/22/00 at 15:11, cainusatsprint [dot] ca (Gregg Caines) wrote:

> I'm assuming you use getURL for the mailto. As far as I know
> GetURL opens the default browser automatically, and the
> browser opens the default mail client.
>
> If this is the case, and I believe it is, there is no way around
> it: you need the browser open to do a mailto.

That must be it. Thanks.

Is this procedure something Macromedia cooked up, or is it a standards
thing? It _is_ kinda silly and convoluted to have to open an application you
don't need to open an application to get things done. (Apple Data Detectors
will open your email client directly, and so will most other Internet
Config aware applications. There must be similar mechanism on the Windows
side, no?

Anyway, thanks again.
____________________________________________________________________
Ren� Brouwer
Brouwer Media

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