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SotonHammer
09-06-2006, 10:37 AM
Hi All,

Firstly let me say i am a complete novice when it comes to programming and will doth my cap to anyone who could possibly help me with this matter.

Basically, i am trying to get a piece of code i stumbled across to work as my email signature in outlook. After searching on the forum, i read a previous post about the dangers of sending HTML emails, but as i work in a bank, i'll leave it up to the IT guys to worry about that. Anyway, the code looks like:

<head>
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" FPTYPE="mydynamicanimation">
<!--
dynamicanimAttr = "mydynamicanimation"
animateElements = new Array()
currentElement = 0
speed = 0
stepsZoom = 8
stepsWord = 8
stepsFly = 12
stepsSpiral = 16
steps = stepsZoom
step = 0
outString = ""
function mydynAnimation()
{
var ms = navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE")
ie4 = (ms>0) && (parseInt(navigator.appVersion.substring(ms+5, ms+6)) >= 4)
if(!ie4)
{
if((navigator.appName == "Netscape") &&
(parseInt(navigator.appVersion.substring(0, 1)) >= 4))
{
for (index=document.layers.length-1; index >= 0; index--)
{
layer=document.layers[index]
if (layer.left==10000)
layer.left=0
}
}
return
}
for (index=document.all.length-1; index >= document.body.sourceIndex; index--)
{
el = document.all[index]
animation = el.getAttribute(dynamicanimAttr, false)
if(null != animation)
{
if(animation == "dropWord" || animation == "flyTopRightWord" || animation == "flyBottomRightWord")
{
ih = el.innerHTML
outString = ""
i1 = 0
iend = ih.length
while(true)
{
i2 = startWord(ih, i1)
if(i2 == -1)
i2 = iend
outWord(ih, i1, i2, false, "")
if(i2 == iend)
break
i1 = i2
i2 = endWord(ih, i1)
if(i2 == -1)
i2 = iend
outWord(ih, i1, i2, true, animation)
if(i2 == iend)
break
i1 = i2
}
document.all[index].innerHTML = outString
document.all[index].style.posLeft = 0
document.all[index].setAttribute(dynamicanimAttr, null)
}
if(animation == "zoomIn" || animation == "zoomOut")
{
ih = el.innerHTML
outString = "<SPAN " + dynamicanimAttr + "=\"" + animation + "\" style=\"position: relative; left: 10000;\">"
outString += ih
outString += "</SPAN>"
document.all[index].innerHTML = outString
document.all[index].style.posLeft = 0
document.all[index].setAttribute(dynamicanimAttr, null)
}
}
}
i = 0
for (index=document.body.sourceIndex; index < document.all.length; index++)
{
el = document.all[index]
animation = el.getAttribute(dynamicanimAttr, false)
if (null != animation)
{
if(animation == "flyLeft")
{
el.style.posLeft = 10000-offsetLeft(el)-el.offsetWidth
el.style.posTop = 0
}
else if(animation == "flyRight")
{
el.style.posLeft = 10000-offsetLeft(el)+document.body.offsetWidth
el.style.posTop = 0
}
else if(animation == "flyTop" || animation == "dropWord")
{
el.style.posLeft = 0
el.style.posTop = document.body.scrollTop-offsetTop(el)-el.offsetHeight
}
else if(animation == "flyBottom")
{
el.style.posLeft = 0
el.style.posTop = document.body.scrollTop-offsetTop(el)+document.body.offsetHeight
}
else if(animation == "flyTopLeft")
{
el.style.posLeft = 10000-offsetLeft(el)-el.offsetWidth
el.style.posTop = document.body.scrollTop-offsetTop(el)-el.offsetHeight
}
else if(animation == "flyTopRight" || animation == "flyTopRightWord")
{
el.style.posLeft = 10000-offsetLeft(el)+document.body.offsetWidth
el.style.posTop = document.body.scrollTop-offsetTop(el)-el.offsetHeight
}
else if(animation == "flyBottomLeft")
{
el.style.posLeft = 10000-offsetLeft(el)-el.offsetWidth
el.style.posTop = document.body.scrollTop-offsetTop(el)+document.body.offsetHeight
}
else if(animation == "flyBottomRight" || animation == "flyBottomRightWord")
{
el.style.posLeft = 10000-offsetLeft(el)+document.body.offsetWidth
el.style.posTop = document.body.scrollTop-offsetTop(el)+document.body.offsetHeight
}
else if(animation == "spiral")
{
el.style.posLeft = 10000-offsetLeft(el)-el.offsetWidth
el.style.posTop = document.body.scrollTop-offsetTop(el)-el.offsetHeight
}
else if(animation == "zoomIn")
{
el.style.posLeft = 10000
el.style.posTop = 0
}
else if(animation == "zoomOut")
{
el.style.posLeft = 10000
el.style.posTop = 0
}
else
{
el.style.posLeft = 10000-offsetLeft(el)-el.offsetWidth
el.style.posTop = 0
}
el.initLeft = el.style.posLeft
el.initTop = el.style.posTop
animateElements[i++] = el
}
}
window.setTimeout("animate();", speed)
}
function offsetLeft(el)
{
x = el.offsetLeft
for (e = el.offsetParent; e; e = e.offsetParent)
x += e.offsetLeft;
return x
}
function offsetTop(el)
{
y = el.offsetTop
for (e = el.offsetParent; e; e = e.offsetParent)
y += e.offsetTop;
return y
}
function startWord(ih, i)
{
for(tag = false; i < ih.length; i++)
{
c = ih.charAt(i)
if(c == '<')
tag = true
if(!tag)
return i
if(c == '>')
tag = false
}
return -1
}
function endWord(ih, i)
{
nonSpace = false
space = false
while(i < ih.length)
{
c = ih.charAt(i)
if(c != ' ')
nonSpace = true
if(nonSpace && c == ' ')
space = true
if(c == '<')
return i
if(space && c != ' ')
return i
i++
}
return -1
}
function outWord(ih, i1, i2, dyn, anim)
{
if(dyn)
outString += "<SPAN " + dynamicanimAttr + "=\"" + anim + "\" style=\"position: relative; left: 10000;\">"
outString += ih.substring(i1, i2)
if(dyn)
outString += "</SPAN>"
}
function animate()
{
el = animateElements[currentElement]
animation = el.getAttribute(dynamicanimAttr, false)
step++
if(animation == "spiral")
{
steps = stepsSpiral
v = step/steps
rf = 1.0 - v
t = v * 2.0*Math.PI
rx = Math.max(Math.abs(el.initLeft), 200)
ry = Math.max(Math.abs(el.initTop), 200)
el.style.posLeft = Math.ceil(-rf*Math.cos(t)*rx)
el.style.posTop = Math.ceil(-rf*Math.sin(t)*ry)
}
else if(animation == "zoomIn")
{
steps = stepsZoom
el.style.fontSize = Math.ceil(50+50*step/steps) + "%"
el.style.posLeft = 0
}
else if(animation == "zoomOut")
{
steps = stepsZoom
el.style.fontSize = Math.ceil(100+200*(steps-step)/steps) + "%"
el.style.posLeft = 0
}
else
{
steps = stepsFly
if(animation == "dropWord" || animation == "flyTopRightWord" || animation == "flyBottomRightWord")
steps = stepsWord
dl = el.initLeft / steps
dt = el.initTop / steps
el.style.posLeft = el.style.posLeft - dl
el.style.posTop = el.style.posTop - dt
}
if (step >= steps)
{
el.style.posLeft = 0
el.style.posTop = 0
currentElement++
step = 0
}
if(currentElement < animateElements.length)
window.setTimeout("animate();", speed)
}
//-->
</script></head>
<body onload="mydynAnimation()">
<p align="left" mydynamicanimation="flyTopRightWord"
style="position: relative !important; left: 10000 !important"><font
face="Arial">Useless
<br>Information
</br>

</font></p>
</body>
If i'm barking up the wrong tree then can someone please let me know, otherwise any help will be greatly appreciated.
eukhost.com
09-12-2006, 02:37 PM
Hello,

We use HTML mails all the time and its not aproblem if you use them, so far we have had no issues with it.
jscheuer1
09-12-2006, 02:53 PM
That's not HTML. It is javascript, and browser specific (IE) javascript at that. As such, it will be blocked by just about any email client and handled as pure text by most of the rest.

Even if using pure HTML (as a signature or an entire email) has problems if your email client doesn't also send a text only version. This creates no problems on the sending side, as long as the sending email client can handle it, as many can. But, on the receiving end where you have no control over the email client in use. Many cannot make any sense of HTML email.