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html email detect if Outlook or PDA
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Dave Meyers
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Joined: Mar 28, 2003
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I'd like to detect if a html email that I am sending (via Java) is being viewed in a PDA or in Outlook. My goal is to send one html email. If the email is viewed in Outlook display 10 columns. If the html email is being viewed in a PDA I would suppress 5 of the columns. Is there any way to do this?
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Paul Clapham
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Joined: Oct 14, 2005
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Well, it's not you that's going to detect that, right? (You said "I'd like to detect...") So you have to ask yourself what is going to do the detecting. The only possibilities are the e-mail message and the HTML in it.
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Dave Meyers
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Joined: Mar 28, 2003
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Do you know of any ways for the email message or html to detect how it is being viewed or other tricks to solve this problem?
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Paul Clapham
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I'm not aware of any HTML elements which work differently based on the container which is displaying them. And I wouldn't expect to find any either, since HTML isn't that kind of language. Normally, as I expect you know, that sort of thing is done with Javascript and CSS, but e-mail clients wouldn't normally execute Javascript and they might not bother with CSS either. Of course you could experiment with those things but I wouldn't expect them to do what you want.
If it were me I would just e-mail a link to an HTML document with suitable Javascript or CSS, and pass the responsibility to the browser.
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