Having worked through this issue with a bunch of different clients I can
only say that the only thing that works reliably in HTML mail is an href.
Mail.com, hotmail.com and yahoo.com strip out all form, javascript and input
tags from the HTML mail that they receive. Lotus notes reformats HTML to
only display the text and links. Any tables graphics etc. are lost. Only
outlook and netscape messenger users will be able to see the form and
interact with the form as you originally intended. Then you have the problem
of differences within the IE engine that the different users have on their
machines. Basically outlook just instantiates the IE control that sits on
that machine to display the HTML. So now you don't even know what version of
the browser they're using and IE 5 has lots of bugs... :( We basically embed
a link to the actual form page so that everyone can use the form. It sucks
but it works universally.
ed
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Horan
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 3:10 PM
To: Fusebox
Subject: RE: forms in HTML email
Steve,
Just watch out using funky forms code (javascript field validation, etc)...
some email clients use their own internal mini-browser that may not fully
support javascript. Keep the forms stuff simple and you shouldn't have a
problem. If you're developing for an intranet environment and have some
control over the client software config, then knock yourself out with the
bells & whistles. ...just my $0.02...
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 3:17 AM
To: Fusebox
Subject: forms in HTML email
Has anyone played around with forms in HTML emails? I'm just starting
to really dig it and i'm wondering if there are pitfalls I need to look
out for.
Steve
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