wow.... that does suck. i'm glad I asked.
Steve
Edward Chowdhury wrote:
>
> 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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