[kdewebdev-webdeveloper] Form Problem

[Graeme Nichols]

Eric Laffoon wrote:

>On Friday 25 February 2005 07:35 pm, Graeme Nichols wrote:
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>>>There is however a solution where this will work with Javascript. I have
>>>it in a Javascript book somewhere if you want to use that option. Just
>>>ask. 
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>>>
>>Hello Eric, would you be so kind as to look up that option for me
>>please. I would appreciate it.
>>
>>Ta,
>>
>>Graeme.
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>Sorry to take so long. I stand corrected... From page 419 of "Javascript 
>Bible" by Danny goodman I find "Microsoft, on the other hand, goes too far in 
>preventing forms e-mailing." Of course as was pointed out here they can 
>hardly be faulted for not perpetuating Netscape's non standard extentions to 
>HTML.
>
>So you're back where you started. You can use a mailto link that does not 
>manage the form, or you could access CGI off site. Alternately you could us 
>Javascript with an onSubmit function that created a new window and wrote the 
>form result on it. Then you could instruct the user to email it to you. That 
>is a bit of an exercise for a less than satisfactory result.
>
>One other option exists if you know your user will be running KDE and have 
>Quanta installed. You could embed a Kommander dialog. When they click on it 
>they will get a warning that it is dangerous to run scripts from off site, 
>but the dialog could gather their data, format it and insert it into an email 
>in Kmail that is ready to send.
>
>I hope this is of some help.
>  
>
Hello Eric, thanks for your reply, I appreciate you taking the time to 
look it up for me. I have been looking at some of the free sites and for 
what I need they will do the job nicely I think.

Thanks again.

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Kind regards,

Graeme.
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