flash (alternate): Hello everybody,

Can I include a SWF file in an email in HTML format ?

What are the MIME settings ?

Any help is welcome

SG

Not really.

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Yes, you can indeed. There is a trick involved though ;)

However, not all email clients will be able to play it, and more recent
email clients that CAN do it will (by default) NOT do it unless you enable
ActiveX support.
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Jeckyl

Hi Jeckyl, what's the trick then. I recently did some investigation and everything a saw documented out there, almost merely talked
about problems. Very curious. And what would you do if an emailcleint can't handle it?

John

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The trick involved including a small invisible control (think its media
player) that is capable of reading content from the email (as a mime part)
when that is there, the flash player control can be told to also read the
same content. Basically, those who use flash directly in email have some
stock html code that they use to make the embedding work.

However, unless you know that those receiving the email will have clients
that can understand embedded flash player and embedded swf in an email, it
is probably best not to use that technique.

Other techniques involve uploading the swf to a server, and have the player
activex embedded in the email html, but refer to the swf on the server ..
but even then it is limited to windows based clients that support activeX
controls in email. And it also relies on the client not blocking such
content by default.

Best thing if you do use either technique (or you do neither) is to ALSO
include a link taking the reader to a web page with the same flash content.

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD !! :):)
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Tnx;especially for <q>Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you
SHOULD !! :):)</q>

John

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