On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Marcelo wrote:
> > On Oct 23, 6:26 pm, Gregory Short <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Except web browser != html viewer... > > Quite right, but 'HTML viewer' == 'Browser Control', which is commonly > used in desktop applications written in VB, Delphi, C++, etc., and > that is allowed. > What you may not do is to embed the image with a resource ID, because > that means that you're displaying an attachment inline rather than > fetching the image by HTTP. True enough...I suppose it's just a matter of *who* is telling the email client the url to fetch. The end-user can't do it, but the person crafting the email can, and by those means it *can* be directed to an arbitrary url. Although I'm not entirely convinced that your equality is entirely true, on account of the question of what happens when you click a link. In a "regular" browser control, if you click a link, it's followed in that control (in general). On the other hand, email clients generally strictly render the html, but provide no support for interacting with it beyond opening a clicked link in an actual web browser. The only thing preventing a user from visiting, for example, google.com in Random Desktop App A is that there is no way to type in a url, and there are no links to let the user escape the network of documents prescribed by the developer. Whereas with a mail client, even if there is a link to google.com, clicking it will *not* open it in the email client. I'm sure there's a counter-example out there, of course, but showing that an email client *can* act as a web browser does not mean that all email clients *do* act as web browsers. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
