Message: 6
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:13:33 -0600
From: Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OT: Getting HTML text into an email message
To: Use Revolution List <[email protected]>
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Since no one responded to this, I'll take a stab...
But what is the magic? Is there a way in Run Rev to convert an HTML
page directly for email?
The problem here is that as soon as you leave the realm of plain
text, you
enter the world of "what does the specific email client support"?
That is,
assuming you want Mail to be the email client here that will be
sending the
message, you need to then play in Mail's sandbox using whatever
AppleScript
is supported in Mail to do this (more on this later). But of course
whatever
you do will only work with Mail; if you want to send an HTML-
formatted email
from Entourage or from Outlook (PC), etc. you'll need to do something
totally different.
The other alternative (if you don't want to use a third-party email
client),
is to have Rev send SMTP-based email itself, and if you're
interested in
that avenue, there are a couple of libraries out there to help you
send SMTP
email.
Back to Mail... since you're sending a formatted field, I'm
assuming it's
not pictures, so one way to do what you're looking for would be to
AppleScript the mail message by styling the text in the same way
the field
is styled in Rev... there may be others, but this is the one I'm
aware of...
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Ken,
Thanks for the thoughtful response. As I suspected, there is no
simple answer, or at least simple enough that I am willing to pursue it.
I found this in an article by Tim Slavin:
"The biggest pain when coding HTML email is that so many different
software tools are available for reading email, from
desktop software such as Eudora, Outlook, AOL, Thunderbird, and Lotus
Notes, to web-based email services such as
Yahoo!, Hotmail, and Google Mail. If you thought it was difficult to
ensure the cross-browser compatibility of your web
sites, be aware that this is a whole new game -- each of these email
software tools can display the same email in vastly
different ways. And even when these tools do display an HTML email
properly, accounting for variances in, for example,
the widths at which readers size their windows when reading emails
makes things even trickier."
Confirming your observation above.
For several years I have volunteered to do election data base work
for local grass roots organizations. I am not able to disabuse them
of the fact that web page and HTML email construction is a different
skill altogether, a skill I don't have. But one thing has led to
another and I am trying my hand at HTML. I hate it. Sure wish Run Rev
would come out with its Web edition of Run Rev. That would take care
of the web page. Then all we would have to do is persuade the world
to download the app that makes it work.
Jim Hurley
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