At 01:13 PM 1/20/99 -0500, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: >True. But "common browser/email client combinations" will probably handle >these extensions just fine. It's the older, less-common software that might >have difficulty. They don't. Anecdotal evidence: Just wrapped up teaching an Intro to HTML course for the HTML Writers Guild. 112 students. Over 40% could not get their "mailto" forms to work, even WITHOUT using non-standard syntax to include subjects and what-not. All were using NN 3.x and IE 3.x (or higher in both -- most using 4.x generation), and current popular email software including Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, and Communicator. If that's not "common browser/email client combinations", I don't know what is. Ann --- Author of Effective Web Design: Master the Essentials Buy it online! http://www.webgeek.com/about.html Owner, WebGeek Communications http://www.webgeek.com Vice President-Finance, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.orgReceived on Wednesday, 20 January 1999 13:32:55 GMT
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