Re: hwg-basics-digest V1 #611

Hello,

Actually it is versions of IE below IE 5 that are the culprit. They open a
new blank email and the user has to fill it in. IE5 does support the mailto
command the same as NN does. A quick tip, add enctype="text/plain" after the
mailto: for a nicer format of the response.

Frani

----- Original Message -----
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:08:33 +0000
From: Sue <sue(at)bartandsue.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Sending Form Info without CGI script

Hi Linda. Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings.

Not quite. The _receiving_ mail program shouldn't make any difference; it's
the
one used by the person filling in the form that may give you problems. I'm
saying that if your customer/viewer/form-filler is using Outlook as their
default mail program, they will have problems mailing the form. I tried to
do
this about six months or so ago; it worked fine with my Netscape Mail, but
did
not work fine with my client's Outlook. You could always test it again using
mailto, because the form would be the same (except the METHOD) whether
designed
to be used with Javascript or CGI.

Sue

Lee & Linda Taylor wrote:

> Sue:
>     Just to clear this up for me, are you saying that if I were to use a
> non-CGI form method and Outlook Express, I won't be able to read the
> results? Because that is my mail program and I have just been preparing a
> non-CGI form.
>
> Linda G. Taylor
>
> >Also, using this method, you need to be aware that it won't work with
some
> mail
> >programs, most notably, I believe, Outlook Express. :-(
> >
> >Sue
> >

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