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delivery of forms through emailFor example you could built a page with a form telling the user to submit comments about the page. The comments are then sent to a specified email adress. So you can just read them or feed any programm with this information, which must not be installed on the web server.
To envoke the email-support you simply have to insert the usual html email-url
into the action field of the form.
<form action="mailto:youremail@yourhost.yourdomain">
<input name="textentry" size="40">
<input type="submit" value="send">
</form>
including sound files
One way to start a midi music is to include it with a embed tag.
Another widely used music format is the .MOD format. There are a number of
plugins capable of playing those files (and their relatives xm, s3m etc.).
Again most of those plugins run only with Microsoft Windows environment. You
can use the above tag embed and simply use the mod filename. This
works for Real Audio files too.
automatical refreshing
using sans serif fonts
I think there is no standard for including sound files into html language by
now, so there are many ways. Browsers running under Microsoft Windows should
know how to play midi files (if there is a sound card installed). As the
majority uses these you can be sure 95% of the people accessing your page
will hear music. But those browsers do not process the midi files themselves,
but rely on plugins or the system functions to play the midi file. The are
hundreds of different options to submit for those tag for all different
plugins or players. I recommend not using them, as the result on different
configurations is hardly predictable.
<embed src="./rock.mid">
This should start a midi player, if your browser knows how to handle midi files.
Many plugins understand the autostart and loop option which
control the playback of the music file. Also height and width
are often used, if the plugin uses some user interface which will be included
in the page. Another example how to start our midi file:
<embed src="./rock.mid" autostart="true" loop="true" width="100" height="50">
However the second example is less compatible with any imaginary plugin a user
might habe installed and may not execute, although a midi player is available.
Browsers can be advised to load the html page again with a special directive
in the <head> container.
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10">
The page will be reloaded every 10 seconds. This is useful for web cameras
or counters generated by cgi-scripts which change rapidly. You can also point
to another url by adding the path to the content field seperated
with comma.
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10,http://www.hornet.org">
The html standard has no tag to change
the standard font into a sans serif shaped. However you can use the
<font> tag to advise the browser to load a different font. With the
option face a different font is used. Computer history brought us
various fonts. However a sans serif font was mostly available under the name
of either arial, futura, helvetica. So we use these three names in our
font tag and if the browser can find any of those font faces it will use them.
This will work on Microsoft Windows, Macintosh and many Unix/Linux systems.
<font face="arial, futura, helvetica">
version 1.0 from 24. June 1998 - written by doj
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