quick question about mailto: tag in forms

I set up an adobe form to submit the completed form after fill out. Now, I have outlook on my computer and it works fine. What happens if the client does not have outlook and only uses a web based email? how will the form attach and be sent?

 

I think it will depend on what type of setup they have. I have a plugin for FireFox that fires up my gmail account whenever I click on a mailto: link.

I'm a bit confused, is it a FORM that sends itself to you via a cgi script, or is it a LINK used for sending an email?

 

still doesn't answer my question about what would happen when they use a web client?

they are filling out the pdf form in reader and then submitting the data. the form with data becomes an attachment to their mail client

 

If they are filling out a .pdf form, then they should have no problem attaching that to an email in ANY client, web based or not, provided their client allows them permission to attach files (and if the file is under a certain file size limit).

Example: Gmail -- there is an option to add an attachment. In fact, that options exists in pretty much every web-based email system I have seen.

There shouldn't be a problem doing that at all.

 

you don't understand. They are not filling it out or saving it on their comp to be attached later to a web client.

When they press submit on the form, adobe itself opens up the email client and attaches the pdf form by itself. The user just clicks the submit button on the form. My question is what will adobe do if there is no outlook and the client uses a web based program like gmail, etc???

thanks

 

it will open their default mail client. outlook, outlook express, etc.

 

either that or give an error message.

 

i wonder how many people don't use an email client and just rely on web mail. I am afraid it will give an error cause they won't have an email client installed

 

set up a form that doesn't require an email client to open. you can do this with Google Spreadsheets....

 

What will happen is the email will never be sent because the default email client is never opened. An error will pop up telling you to use an email client.

Which is why I never recommend using the mailto: attribute (that and spammers will harvest the email address anyway and then spam you and others to death with it).