[thelist] Flash in e-mail

Chris Garrett chris at chrisg.com
Tue Nov 27 10:25:56 CST 2001


I agree. I have had success with both the "plain text with standard link to
content" and "send the html with http:// flash embedded" approaches, but the
former gets less abusive response!

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Cook" <steve.cook at evitbe.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:24 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] Flash in e-mail


> The usual caveats regarding support of html apply to this - only more so!
> There is no doubt in my mind that sending a flash movie in mail will
result
> in a negative response from some users. It is important to take in mind
your
> client's customer base, their potential technical level (web server logs
can
> be some help in this) and try and make sure that the mail will default to
> being something useful for anyone whose mail client *doesn't* read HTML or
> who doesn't have the Flash plug-in installed.
>
> *Personally*, I'd recommend against it for the same reason that at my
> company we tell our users not to open attachments that they aren't sure
> about. I like to encourage users to be cautious of attached content in
email
> and I would (again, my personal opinion) recommend my client against doing
> this.
>
> I hope this is some help anyway.
>
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