browser.
Haggerty, Mike wrote:
> I guess I need to ask the question, how much are these Eolas patent
> changes going to affect email.
>
>
> What is going to happen in IE is a pop-up box will prompt users as to
> whether or not they want to see 'Active Content' in the browser, unless
> you use scripting. I haven't seen anything about this affecting HTML
> enabled email.
>
>
> 1) Is this really going to affect HTML email, or is this a browser
> specific issue? As I understand it, this patent is specific to using Web
> browsers to automatically load dynamic content through a plug-in, and
> has nothing to do with HTML email. It it possible Outlook et al will not
> be affected.
>
>
> 2) Is the pop-up box that intrusive? I realize it would be a pain to
> have to hit a button each time one receives a Flash email, but I can
> also imagine, and have seen, far worse.
>
>
> Either way, I think this problem can be dealt with and you will not be
> put out of business. Or you could possibly sue Eolas, I can't say why
> but people have made cases against companies for far less and been
> successful.
>
>
> In the worst case, you can switch your business model to deploying
> dynamic content using pure and pleasing ASCII art (which a large number
> of people actually prefer). I am preparing to release a custom tag
> expressly for the purpose of converting raster images into high-res
> ASCII, if you want in on the beta please let me know.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Beer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 1:20 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Eolas patent suit
>
>
> Dave is correct - scripting is out for e-mail messages - way too
> many
> variables to test for and manage, assuming you can even test.
> We've
> developed a way to allow the code to 'gracefully degrade' from
> fully
> scripted embedding of the OBJECT tag, to showing a standard jpg
> image,
> that works on almost all platforms. But, if I can't get remote
> data,
> none of this matters any more.
>
> Matt is also right - there's no way we can embed the flash
> content in
> the e-mail. I can't send a 400k e-mail to 50k people. The
> users don't
> mind some load time as there is a lot of static info that goes
> with it.
> However, people would (literally?) kill me if it took 30+
> seconds to
> download the message itself.
>
> Even using base64 for the URI values, it's still external data,
> and
> won't load. I don't currently see any way to do this, so I'm
> hoping
> that either MS gives in and buys a license, or, Eolas gets beat
> down in
> court, before the new browser versions come out. Either way is
> fine
> with me :)
>
>
>
>
>
> _____
>
>
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