Video/Flash Email 55 Responses

Last post: 1 year, 1 month ago | Thread started: Aug 24, 07, 7:53 a.m.

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• visualplane_

  Anyway to put video or flash in email? I've heard due to security reasons, flash can't be placed in emails but maybe someone here knows otherwise? Cheers

  Aug 24, 07, 7:53 a.m. – Permalink

• harlequino

  you sorta kinda can (flash, not video), but works pretty poorly and will be rejected by most email clients. Technology still ain't really there yet.

  But you can do something like this as a good alternative.
  http://www.viditalk.com/site/

  

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  Dog-earAug 24, 07, 8 a.m. – Permalink

• ian

  I've done this before.

  Mac Mail is the only email application that 100% supports flash in an email. Entourage and the others read flash as a .exe and therefor throw up a security error.

  Did a newsletter type thingy for a client in flash (not my idea) and their IT dept had to make sure that all the pc's had flash installed and change the security settings to allow it to play. This was a company with about 1,500 employees.

  Then you're limited to very basic AS interactivity.

  It's a nightmare on the client side to set this up and allow it, so I wouldn't recommend.

  Do a search for this in here, cos other people have asked and I think I had links to articles about this.

  Whatever you do, best of luck!

  

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  Dog-earAug 24, 07, 8:27 a.m. – Permalink

• wwfc

  yup! fookin' nightmare - not worth the effort or time you'll spend trying to make it work.

  Sorry if that isn't very helpful or constructive but that is how it is.

  Half the time people that leave their email preferences at default don't even get html emails let alone flash rich mails.

  Soz n' all that

  

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  Dog-earAug 24, 07, 8:30 a.m. – Permalink

• Meeklo

  I don't think its a mater of technology being there, its more about users not wanting to recieve it and blocking you and/or any strange content that might trigger sounds or other un-solicited actions.

  

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  Dog-earAug 24, 07, 8:31 a.m. – Permalink

• harlequino

  i meant 'not being there' mainly as not yet simple enough to create AND simple and non-threatening for a user to accept.

  

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  Dog-earAug 24, 07, 8:38 a.m. – Permalink