Posted by STILL LEARNING on 02/08/07 18:35

On Feb 8, 7:47 am, "John" <J...@Hosking.name> wrote:
>
> So if you don't want a JavaScript solution, why did you post to
> c.a.javascript?
>
> And BTW, Java is not the same as JavaScript, despite the shared letters.

Well, to be perfectly frank I find the level of creativity in this
forum quite robust. As the length of this thread indicates, there is
more than one way to approach this objective (although I confess I
didn't fully think through the cross-browser + "friendly" issues
before first diving in). In any event, I think I can be forgiven
acknowledging the native creativity of the Javascript forum. Anything
you might lose to conspiratorial impulses you more than make up for in
knowledge ha ha.

Folks, no one is trying to hack (anyone, anywhere) with this request.
This is about emailing my 96-year old grandmother a (stock) graphic
that says "I've got new pictures Nana, click ANYWHERE in this window
and it will send you to the latest installment." She's not exactly
steady with a mouse, so this is a (somewhat) forgiving method of
giving her a wwwwwiiiiidddddeeeee berth to click.

And to answer the question burning in everyone's mind ("Why don't you
just make the graphic a link in the first place???"), I'm having
trouble getting it to send properly through my email client (or she's
got trouble on her end? damned if I know) because the graphic keeps
showing up on her end as an ATTACHMENT that she would have to open
separately.

So (sorry, this is kind of long lol) I tested another way to send this
"CLICK ANYWHERE" graphic -- as a >>BACKGROUND image -- and it sent
through my (old, I confess) email program just fine . . . but there's
just one little problem: I don't have any method through my email
program to control the purpose of that background image -- namely, to
make the entire thing One Big Click. It just sits there, you see.

Then we attempt "dorayme's" solution (it works a charm btw Do, a very
nice thing to have learned, thank you!) and . . . oh hell, here we go
again! :( The "clear.gif" is sent as an >>ATTACHMENT. Again, I'm
sorry this is such a soap opera but . . . well, don't read it if it's
too lengthy. I don't blame you; I'm ready to toss the whole project
lol.

Finally, if some of you are about to strongly recommend that I get a
new email program, I hear you. Unfortunately I just love the one I'm
using (it's "Calypso" not that anyone has ever heard it lol). This
being the one and only reason I would have need to change to a
different email program, I just have to weigh if it is that important
to me. I even tried dropping the html into Netscape and sending it to
myself to see if it would work, but I run into the same problem:
These email programs obviously alter (any) HTML in the course of
formatting something for email.

It's interesting because I've never realized this before, but . . . I
gather there IS no way to "Send" (email) an HTML page -- I mean, the
page itself, not a link referring to the page (or at least, I don't
know of any way to do it).

SL'in

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