yo****@gmail.com wrote:
hey
my final goal: to add a link to an email message, that will contact my
server & mark the email as "important", with no popup windows/annoying
messages.
id like to do this in ajax, but the problem is javascript support in
emails.
i want it to work in every computer, even if its viewed in gmail.
my first attempt was a <a href='javascript:alert("hey")'>click</a> but
outlook doesnt activate it, nor gmail.
so my 2nd thought was maybe opening an outside window that will do the
server marking, and then close the window, but explorer verifies if the
user wants to close the window.
any idea how i can do this? be creative
Hi,
It is considered a private matter when I read my email.
At least, I consider that a private matter.
If you want some JS to be executed inside a emailbrowser, think again.
You cannot possibly expect all emailreaders to execute JS.
Why?
If you can execute JS inside an emailbrowser when I click a link, you can
also execute that code without me clicking that button/link.
In that way you can easily 'phone home' when I read it, or even worse, like
earlier version of the ever-broken infamous Outlook emailclient.
Personally I will go a long way to make sure you never execute code
whats-o-ever when I read my email, and so do many others.
More old tricks, add an image to the HTML-email that 'phones home'.
eg:
<img src="http://www.myspywaresite.com/someAssReadMail.php?id=2345">
Many (good) emailproviders make sure this trick doesn't work either.
To put it bluntly: Don't persue the path you are following now. People don't
like it and while you could get it working for some (unsafe) emailclients,
the idea behind it is horrible.
Just my 2 cent...
Regards,
Erwin Moller
