Re: FLASH: MS Digital Dashboard (was: longer title)

[John Dowdell]

At 4:02 AM 2/24/0, Christian Cook wrote:

> Some of the simplest Flash functionality (Particularly mailto: links)

> fail to function correctly in a Digital dashboard.


"mailto:" protocol pseudo-URLs fail in many browsers. That's why the

technotes generally advise using server-based remailers.


(In the Flash-specific technote that Bentley and Tommi wrote last year,

don't look at all their nice screen captures... carefully read that first

paragraph where they say "most Microsoft and Netscape versions support

this". Perhaps they should add a picture of a skull-and-crossbones

there.... ;-)


People latch onto "mailto:" URLs and recommend them to both friends and

strangers, but they really don't work very well. I've been typing that for

five years but have pretty much given up on countering mailing list talk.

It's sorta like asking about IE/Mac detection, there will be a new thread

on this every week.... [sigh]


Many people like FormMail from Matt's Scripting Archive:

http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/


jd






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