[thelist] Hyperlinks in different email clients, particularly AOL

Mike DeHart mike at dehart.net
Mon Jul 9 23:03:38 CDT 2001


Thanks, Simon. That's depressing, but <imho>par for the course</imho> w/AOL.

Cheers... m

At 07:54 AM 7/9/01, you wrote:
>-- at 11:49 PM -0400 on 7/8/01, Mike DeHart wrote:
> >
> > Am crafting email autoresponders in plain ascii txt.
> > Am using
> >
> > <mailto:foo at foo.org> for email, &
> > <http://foo.org> for http.
> >
> > Will this cover the bases pretty well? Are the brackets
> > still needed for AOL email users? Anyone not see these
> > two above as hyperlinks?
> >
>
>
>Hiya Mike,
>
>For AOL email clients you have to use an
>anchor tag. Most other email client will
>see the links you used as examples but AOL
>will not see them as clickable links unless
>you use tags. Of course some of the other
>email clients (Eudora for example) will see
>the tag plus the link. But if you want
>clickable links in AOL emails you need to
>do something like this...
>
>AOL Link - <a href="http://foo.org/">click to visit our website now</a>
>
>AOL Link - <a href="mailto:foo at foo.org">click to send us an email</a>
>
>And yes, if you have a large number of AOL
>respondents then giving them a clickable link
>will definitely make a difference in how they
>respond.
>
>Note: be sure to turn *off* any automatic
>word-wrapping when you're sending AOL-type
>links; you want them to go out (and arrive
>if you're lucky) as one unbroken line.
>
>Hope that helps,
>
>Simon
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