Re: FLASH: mailto tag in Flash

[Michael Greenberg]

Yes Matt from a Director Projector you can bump open an e-maila client to

send an e-mail.


Michael


>

From: "Matt Wobensmith" <mwobensmithmacromedia [dot] com>

>

Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 16:38:33 -0700

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: mailto tag in Flash

> 

> Hi Ren� -

> 

> You wrote:

> 

>> On the Mac, I would much prefer it if the mailto getUrl would be mapped

>> directly to the default mail client. I'm assuming a similar approach is

>> possible in Windows.

> 

> I agree, this does sound preferable for the project you are making.

> 

> I don't know if Director allows you to do this (comments?) but Flash

> projectors just don't have much in the way of system-level operability.

> They're mainly intended to play animations outside of the browser. It's

> logical that people want to do more with them, but the GetURL "mailto:" just

> doesn't have the ability to target specific applications. I would hesitate

> building Flash projectors for this purpose myself.

> 

> Thanks for the info, though. It is definitely worth discussing. You can also

>

send requests like this to wish-flashmacromedia [dot] com, where the Flash

> product team reads feature requests.

> 

> Matt

> 

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> Matt Wobensmith

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> Flash Team Lead

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