Need help

[Boellie]

Please can somebody help me ?
I'm looking for a javascript which will take a specified part text
from a website and puts that in a email to a specified adress.
Does anybody know if something like this allready exists, and if so
where can i find it ?

Thanks in advance for any answers.

[VK]

Re: Need help

> take a specified part text from a website
google for JavaScript Range object and its properties
depends on where are you taking the text from: from the selection, from
a named paragraph, from ?
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> and puts that in a email to a specified adress.[/color]
use mailto protocol:
....
var txt = "Sample text to send";
var email = "mailto:"+EMail +"?subject="+Su bject+"&body="+ escape(txt);
window.location .href =email;
....

Notice that all system support (or properly support) mailto protocol
Also most of the systems has security limitations on length and content
of the auto-generated body.
Generally you limit is 127 character long plain text body.

[kaeli]

Re: Need help

And on the day Fri, 7 Nov 2003 00:22:49 +0100, schools_ring@ya hoo.com
enlightened us with <3faad7e6$0$156 77$9b622d9e@new s.freenet.de>.. .[color=blue]
> ...
>
> Notice that all system support (or properly support) mailto protocol[/color]


Unless, of course, the user isn't on their own computer (school,
library, internet cafe). Or the user doesn't have a default mail client
(they use Netscape browser with Outlook mail and didn't set it up, or
they just don't use Outlook, they use a web based mail). Or the user
prefers to use their web address, such as yahoo. Or the user uses Unix
with a windows emulator and Exchange to download their mail to a text
file so they can use pine or mailx...
I can think of 5 people I know off the top of my head who don't use a
default mail client. I can think of ~120 at my work who use Unix pine.

I could come up with lots more reasons why mailto is really, really bad.
Get a server-side script.

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[VK]

Re: Need help

Oops...

"Notice that NOT all system support (or properly support) mailto
protocol"

By context you can see that I was talking about limitations.
Still mailto is an official documented protocol, not some proprietary
extension, so it can be used (wisely).

kaeli <tiny_one@nospa m.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1a14a0 0bdea759e998968 2@news.comcast. giganews.com...[color=blue]
> And on the day Fri, 7 Nov 2003 00:22:49 +0100, schools_ring@ya hoo.com
> enlightened us with <3faad7e6$0$156 77$9b622d9e@new s.freenet.de>.. .[color=green]
> > ...
> >
> > Notice that all system support (or properly support) mailto protocol[/color]
>
>
> Unless, of course, the user isn't on their own computer (school,
> library, internet cafe). Or the user doesn't have a default mail[/color]
client[color=blue]
> (they use Netscape browser with Outlook mail and didn't set it up, or
> they just don't use Outlook, they use a web based mail). Or the user
> prefers to use their web address, such as yahoo. Or the user uses Unix
> with a windows emulator and Exchange to download their mail to a text
> file so they can use pine or mailx...
> I can think of 5 people I know off the top of my head who don't use a
> default mail client. I can think of ~120 at my work who use Unix pine.
>
> I could come up with lots more reasons why mailto is really, really[/color]
bad.[color=blue]
> Get a server-side script.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> ~kaeli~
> Winerr 01C - Wrong Disk Formatted. Sorry About That.
> Winerr 01D - Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue.
> http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart/
> http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace/
> ------------------------------------------------[/color]

[kaeli]

Re: Need help

And on the day Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:20:44 +0100, schools_ring@ya hoo.com
enlightened us with <3fab575d$0$193 63$9b622d9e@new s.freenet.de>.. .[color=blue]
> Oops...
>
> "Notice that NOT all system support (or properly support) mailto
> protocol"
>
> By context you can see that I was talking about limitations.[/color]

Sorry, I jump all over those mailto posts. :)
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> Still mailto is an official documented protocol, not some proprietary
> extension, so it can be used (wisely).
>[/color]

Wisely, yes, but I see it used way too much. I use it for my intranet
sites where I know what everyone has, but knowing what I know now, I'd
never use it for an internet site that was able to be accessed by
everyone.


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~kaeli~
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Winerr 01D - Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue.

http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart/

http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace/

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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: Need help

VK wrote:
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> "Notice that NOT all system support (or properly support) mailto
> protocol"
>
> By context you can see that I was talking about limitations.[/color]

You wrote only about security and length limitations. Alas, you still miss
the point. That an HTTP user agent an a mail user agent, if installed, do
not work well together using the `mailto:' URI scheme (it is _not_ a
protocol!), is neither one and is definitely not a support issue of
(operating) systems.


PointedEars