links in html email
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- mrming
Hi all,
I've got a mate whose company don't let their staff use the net. they've got no browsers on their machines but they do have outlook and can receive html email. Is there any way of opening a link within the email message rather than popping up a browser window - effectively browsing the web through an email message?
- jevad0
I don't think so man!
How shitty!
- mrming0
it seems strange that if you can view one file you can't link to another...
- schjetne0
That sounds be possible through iframes, I guess... Try to target the iframe in the link.
I'm not sure, though. Never tried it myself.
- CAJTBr0
it depends. when you say they can receive html emails, if you send them an email with an inline image from the internet, does that work, or just images which are physically included in with the email?
if the former, then probably the answer is yes. set up an email with an iframe (as that guy said), and also have a text box and a submit button. have it so that when they hit submit, there's some javascript pointing the href of the iframe to the text box's value.
- spoonernyc0
or:
(one of the php tech heads might be able to help me on this)could you have the "link" just be a mailto: that mails back to an address that returns another html email with the desired html page as the body of the message?? pain in the ass yes
but I know that iframes dont work in most email clients... and if you link to another page the email clients has to download the images from somewhere.. I dont think outlook allows for a steady state connection...
- mrming0
That was the only way I could think of doing it aswell. I know php so I might give it a try...
- monokrom0
Why all of the trickery to skirt the house rules? They're paying him to work, not surf the web, right?
- mrming0
The entire department are being made redundant...
- ribit0
no wonder...they've been oppressed and prevented from being productive by the employers policies..
- ribit0
were they allowed to use telephones?
(I hear some people use telephones for personal calls)
- mitsu0
i could write you a browser app really quick, but the only problem is that it's based off of some of IE's libraries and I don't have a computer to test it on that doesn't have IE to know if it will work.
- ribit0
but maybe the employees have sworn never to use a dreaded web browser while in the office...
- enobrev0
well, depending on the mail client, (namely if it's outlook) it should probably use ie as the "built in browser'.
- mitsu0
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