You could try out the free tier of services like http://www.formmail.com/ or HTTP://www.SE dgrid.com On Mar 2, 2016 00:30, "RM" <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 2.03.2016 10:18, Mark Waddingham wrote: > >> On 2016-03-02 09:01, RM wrote: >> >>> Preferably this would be WITHOUT the message having to go via the >>> client's e-mail system as: >>> >>> 1. The message should be anonymous. >>> >>> 2. The end-user may have no e-mail client configured. >>> >> >> Okay so there in terms of what you will be able to do in this regard with >> the HTML5 engine there are two feasible options as far as I can see: >> >> 1) "launch url" with a 'mailto:' URL. This would invoke the locally >> configured email client (and is what revMail does). This won't (I believe) >> work in the HTML5 engine yet because we haven't hooked it up (to my >> knowledge at least). I *think* this would be possible - Peter could perhaps >> comment. (It would ask the hosting web-browser to launch the url). >> >> 2) Put a web-service on a server and get that to send the email. This >> requires no client-side email configuration but does require configuring a >> web-service to do it. Indeed, there might be third party services out there >> which could be used. Again, Peter would have to comment on the feasibility >> of whether this would work in the HTML5 engine at the moment since I cannot >> recall off the top of my head which (if any) URL primitives we have yet >> implemented. >> >> Warmest Regards, >> >> Mark. >> >> > Thank you very much for a reply that is a statement of the /status quo/ as > regards e-mailing from Livecode at the moment. This is extremely helpful as > it gives me an idea of what I /can/ and /cannot/ > do at the moment in this regard. > > What I would like to do, ideally, is set up a chart of some sort with text > entry fields for students to fill in > online, then click a 'submit' button that will send the field entries as a > list to an e-mail address. > > As the current revMail capabilities are not /currently/ implemented in the > HTML5 engine that will have > to wait. > > Am I right in understanding that, theoretically a least, the goal is to > implement all the capabilities > of Livecode into the HTML5 engine? > > Richmond. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode