[Webpro] Flash in web and html mail

[Richard Harb]

Hi,

my

Thursday, April 15, 2004, 3:43:41 PM, you wrote:


> Good day, folks.

> Some of you look familiar from other lists. For those who're not familiar
> with me, here's a bit of an intro before I get to the question I have. I'm
> a web developer living and working in Dublin, Ireland. I taught myself most
> of what I know, bootstrapping up from a glorified summer job some six years
> ago. At the moment, I'm working with Cold Fusion on Windows, although I've
> dealt with Perl, PHP, Tcl, and a few other odds and ends in the past,
> mostly on unix and linux. I've been doing a bit in XML and XSL too, lately.
> Non-web-dev interests include such things as medieval combat (SCA), 
> tabletop rpgs, geology, geography, virtual community, cooking, and 
> pontificating. I'm married to a Finnish girl, and we spend a couple of
> weeks each year in her homeplace. Despite this, I don't speak Finnish
> (well, not much), but have Irish and French when I need them.

> That question: how do people feel about flash these days, where people
> aren't web developers, but the public? And how do they react to it in their
> mail? Does it work at all, now that html mailers are being more and more
> filtered and ignored? I've no investment in flash myself, but our Marketing
> folks here have heard it's a good medium.

> Cheers,
> Drew.