mailto and IE6
Hi
I'm writing an email form using mailto, i was under the impression the contents of the form where emailed once submit was clicked on. Instead outlook express opens, i looked into this and found out it's an IE6 problem which causes mailto to open an email client. Is there anyway round this in HTML?
Don
code: -
: name
: email
comments
Greg K posted this at 21:06 — 23rd April 2006.
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The mailto: method IMO is not very professional, and should be avoided. People using public computers will not have a mail client set up on the computer to properly send the e-mail. (and last time I saw it used, they all opened up a mail client to send the mail, else the visitor wouldn't know they are sedning e-mail.
The best method is to use a form, there are many scripts available to do this in ASP and PHP, several that are canned and easy to set up. Also, there are sites that will let you submit the form to their site and then they will e-mail you the results.
-Greg
Roo posted this at 22:20 — 23rd April 2006.
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Joined: Apr 1999
Terrific php form mail script.
Forn customizable.
Don Logan posted this at 09:03 — 24th April 2006.
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Joined: Mar 2006
thanks guys.
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