make html/tabs working in email ?

6 Message(s) by 3 Author(s) originally posted in java help

From: chunji08

Date: Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Hi all,
I have such things in my Ant script to send a daily report to my
group

A group G is a non-empty {set} upon which a {binary} operator
	* is defined with the following properties for all a,b,c in G:

	  Closure:     G is closed under *,  a*b in G
	  Associative: * is associative on G, (a*b)*c = a*(b*c)
	  Identity:    There is an identity element  e  such that
		       a*e = e*a = a.
	  Inverse:     Every element has a unique inverse a' such that
		       a * a' = a' * a = e.  The inverse is usually
		       written with a superscript -1.

	(1998-10-03)

member,
"
<target name="email_2_team">
<mail from="chunj...@xxxxxxxxxxx"
tolist="team_...@xxxxxxxxxxx"
subject="Today's migration results "
messagemimetype="text/html"
messagefile="migrate.html"/>
</target>
"
Since the report becomes more and more complicated, I am just
wondering if I could put some tabs in that html file, so that when
they open

1. To prepare to read or write a file.  This usually involves
	checking whether the file already exists and that the user has
	the necessary authorisation to read or write it.  The result
	of a successful open is usually some kind of {capability}
	(e.g. a {Unix} {file descriptor}) - a token that the user
	passes back to the system in order to access the file without
	further checks and finally to close the file.

	2. Abbreviation for "open (or left) parenthesis" - used when
	necessary to eliminate oral ambiguity.  To read aloud the LISP
	form (DEFUN FOO (X) (PLUS X 1)) one might say: "Open defun
	foo, open eks close, open, plus eks one, close close."

	3. Non-proprietary.  An open {standard} is one which can be
	used without payment.

	[{Jargon File}]

	(1995-01-31)

their email in ms/outlook, or any IE, Mozilla, they may
click the tabs and see results page by page ?

Can someone give me some advise if it is possible ? How to put it in
one html file, if so? Any simple example will be very helpful !Thanks a lot !Chun

From: Roedy Green

Date: Tuesday, October 09, 2007

wrote in message, quoted
or indirectly quoted someone who said :

Since the report becomes more and more complicated, I am just
wondering if I could put some tabs in that html file, so that when
they open their email in ms/outlook, or any IE, Mozilla, they may
click the tabs and see results page by page ?

Given you've no control

<character> (Or "ctrl", "^") One (or a pair) of {modifier
	keys} found on all modern {keyboards}.  If the control key is
	held down while pressing and releasing certain other keys then
	a "{control character}" is generated, e.g. holding control and
	hitting "A" generates control-A ({ASCII} code 1).  The ASCII
	code for the control character is generally 64 less than that
	for the unmodified character.

	The control key does not generate any character on its own but
	most modern keyboards and {operating systems} allow a program
	to tell whether each of the individual keys on the keyboard
	(including modifier keys) is pressed at any time.

	Control characters mostly have some kind of "non-printing"
	effect on the output such as ringing the bell (Control-G) or
	advancing to the next line (Control-J).  Most have alternative
	names suggesting these functions (Bell, Line Feed, etc.).

	See {ASCII character table}.

	(1997-07-10)

over the html rendering

<graphics, text> The conversion of a high-level object-based
	description into a graphical image for display.

	For example, {ray-tracing} takes a mathematical model of a
	three-dimensional object or scene and converts it into a
	{bitmap} image.  Another example is the process of converting
	{HTML} into an image for display to the user.

	(2001-02-06)

in email browser

<hypertext> A program which allows a person to read
	{hypertext}.  The browser gives some means of viewing the
	contents of {nodes} (or "pages") and of {navigating} from one
	node to another.

	{Netscape Navigator}, {NCSA} {Mosaic}, {Lynx}, and {W3} are
	examples for browsers for the {World-Wide Web}.  They act as
	{clients} to remote {web servers}.

	(1996-05-31)

s,
and that some do not have any at all, I think it'd be safest to
send an URL

<World-Wide Web> (URL, previously "Universal") A {standard}
	way of specifying the location of an object, typically a {web
	page}, on the {Internet}.  Other types of object are described
	below.  URLs are the form of address used on the {World-Wide
	Web}.  They are used in {HTML} documents to specify the target
	of a {hyperlink} which is often another HTML document
	(possibly stored on another computer).

	Here are some example URLs:

	 http://www.w3.org/default.html
	 http://www.acme.co.uk:8080/images/map.gif
	 http://www.foldoc.org/?Uniform+Resource+Locator
	 http://www.w3.org/default.html#Introduction
	 ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/mirrors/msdos/graphics/gifkit.zip
	 ftp://spy:secret@ftp.acme.com/pub/topsecret/weapon.tgz
	 mailto:fred@doc.ic.ac.uk
	 news:alt.hypertext
	 telnet://dra.com

	The part before the first colon specifies the access scheme or
	{protocol}.  Commonly implemented schemes include: {ftp},
	{http} (World-Wide Web), {gopher} or {WAIS}.  The "file"
	scheme should only be used to refer to a file on the same
	host.  Other less commonly used schemes include {news},
	{telnet} or mailto ({e-mail}).

	The part after the colon is interpreted according to the
	access scheme.  In general, two slashes after the colon
	introduce a {hostname} (host:port is also valid, or for {FTP}
	user:passwd@host or user@host).  The {port} number is usually
	omitted and defaults to the standard port for the scheme,
	e.g. port 80 for HTTP.

	For an HTTP or FTP URL the next part is a {pathname} which is
	usually related to the pathname of a file on the server.  The
	file can contain any type of data but only certain types are
	interpreted directly by most {browsers}.  These include {HTML}
	and images in {gif} or {jpeg} format.  The file's type is
	given by a {MIME} type in the HTTP headers returned by the
	server, e.g. "text/html", "image/gif", and is usually also
	indicated by its {filename extension}.  A file whose type is
	not recognised directly by the browser may be passed to an
	external "viewer" {application}, e.g. a sound player.

	The last (optional) part of the URL may be a query string
	preceded by "?" or a "fragment identifier" preceded by "#".
	The later indicates a particular position within the specified
	document.

	Only alphanumerics, reserved characters (:/?#"<>%+) used for
	their reserved purposes and "$", "-", "_", ".", "&", "+" are
	safe and may be transmitted unencoded.  Other characters are
	encoded as a "%" followed by two {hexadecimal} digits.  Space
	may also be encoded as "+".  Standard {SGML} "&<name>;"
	character entity encodings (e.g. "&eacute;") are also accepted
	when URLs are embedded in HTML.  The terminating semicolon may
	be omitted if &<name> is followed by a non-letter character.

	{The authoritative W3C URL specification
	(http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/Addressing.html)}.

	(2000-02-17)

to website

<World-Wide Web> (Or "website") Any computer on the
	{Internet} running a {World-Wide Web} {server} process.  A
	particular website is usually identified by the {hostname}
	part of a {URL}.  Multiple hostnames may actually map to the
	same computer in which case they are known as "{virtual
	servers}".

	(2005-07-12)

that implements the tabs. Then you only need
deal with the major browsers which are much more likely to be
compliant than mailreaders.
--
Roedy Green

A language proposed by Cii {Honeywell-Bull} to meet the DoD
	{Ironman} requirements which led to {Ada}.  This language won
	in 1979.

	["On the GREEN Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra,
	SIGPLAN Notices 13(10):16-21 (Oct 1978)].

	(1994-12-02)

Canadian Mind Products
The JAVA Glossary
http://mindprod.com

From: Andrew Thompson

Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2007

wrote in message:

Since the report becomes more and more complicated, I am just
wondering if I could put some tabs in that html file, so that when
they open their email in ms/outlook, or any IE, Mozilla, they may
click the tabs and see results page by page ?
Given you've no control over the html rendering in email browsers,
and that some do not have any at all, I think it'd be safest to
send an URL to website that implements the tabs. Then you only need
deal with the major browsers which are much more likely to be
compliant than mailreaders.

Since the tab character

<character> An {atom} in a {character repertoire}.

	Compare with {glyph}.

	(1998-10-18)

means nothing in the context

That which surrounds, and gives meaning to, something else.

	<grammar> In a {grammar} it refers to the symbols before and
	after the symbol under consideration.  If the syntax of a
	symbol is independent of its context, the grammar is said to
	be {context-free}.

of
HTML

<hypertext, World-Wide Web, standard> (HTML) A {hypertext}
	document format used on the {World-Wide Web}.  HTML is built
	on top of {SGML}.  "Tags" are embedded in the text.  A tag
	consists of a "<", a "directive" (in lower case), zero or
	more parameters and a ">".  Matched pairs of directives, like
	"<title>" and "</title>" are used to delimit text which is to
	appear in a special place or style.

	Links to other documents are in the form

	 <a href="http://machine.edu/subdir/file.html">foo</a>

	where "<a>" and "</a>" delimit an "anchor", "href" introduces
	a hypertext reference, which is most often a {Uniform Resource
	Locator} (URL) (the string in double quotes in the example
	above).  The link will be represented in the browser by the
	text "foo" (typically shown underlined and in a different
	colour).

	A certain place within an HTML document can be marked with a
	named anchor, e.g.:

	 <a name="baz">

	The "fragment identifier", "baz", can be used in an href by
	appending "#baz" to the document name.

	Other common tags include <p> for a new paragraph, <b>..</b>
	for bold text, <ul> for an unnumbered list, <pre> for
	preformated text, <h1>, <h2> .. <h6> for headings.

	{HTML} supports some standard {SGML} {national characters} and
	other non-{ASCII} characters through special {escape
	sequences}, e.g. "&eacute;" for a lower case 'e' with an acute
	accent.  You can sometimes get away without the terminating
	semicolon but it's bad style.

	Most systems will ignore the case of tags and attributes but
	lower case should be used for compatibility with {XHTML}.

	The {World-Wide Web Consortium} (W3C) is the international
	{standards} body for HTML.

	Latest version: {XHTML} 1.0, as of 2000-09-10.

	{Home (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/)}.

	{Character escape sequences
	(http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/ISOlat1.html)}.

	See also {weblint}.

	(2006-01-19)

, a compliant browser should completely ignore it
(or more probably, compact

1. (Or "finite", "isolated") In {domain theory}, an element d
	of a {cpo} D is compact if and only if, for any {chain} S, a
	subset of D,

		d <= lub S  =>  there exists s in S such that d <= s.

	I.e. you always reach d (or better) after a finite number of
	steps up the chain.

	("<=" is written in {LaTeX} as {\sqsubseteq}).

	[{Jargon File}]

	(1995-01-13)

	2. Of a design, describes the valuable property that it can
	all be apprehended at once in one's head.  This generally
	means the thing created from the design can be used with
	greater facility and fewer errors than an equivalent tool that
	is not compact.  Compactness does not imply triviality or lack
	of power; for example, {C} is compact and {Fortran} is not,
	but C is more powerful than Fortran.  Designs become
	non-compact through accreting {features} and {cruft} that
	don't merge cleanly into the overall design scheme (thus, some
	fans of {Classic C} maintain that {ANSI C} is no longer
	compact).

	(1995-01-13)

it down

1. Not operating.  "The up escalator is down" is considered a
	humorous thing to say, and "The elevator is down" always
	means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what
	floor the elevator is on.  With respect to computers, this
	term has passed into the mainstream; the extension to other
	kinds of machine is still hackish.

	2. "go down" To stop functioning; usually said of the
	{system}.  The message from the {console} that every hacker
	hates to hear from the operator is "System going down in 5
	minutes".

	3. "take down", "bring down" To deactivate purposely, usually
	for repair work or {PM}.  "I'm taking the system down to work
	on that bug in the tape drive."  Occasionally one hears the
	word "down" by itself used as a verb in this sense.

	See {crash}; opposite: {up}.

	[{Jargon File}]

	(1994-12-07)

to a single 'white space'
character).

Indents in HTML are better done using styles, or the PRE
element (using spaces for separation). Alignment can be
better achieved with an HTML TAB

<networking> The {country code} for Haiti.

	(1999-01-27)

LE.

--
Andrew Thompson
http://www.athompson.info/andrew/

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From: Roedy Green

Date: Friday, October 12, 2007

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:56:22 GMT, "Andrew Thompson" <u32984@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

Since the tab character means nothing in the context of
HTML, a compliant browser should completely ignore it
(or more probably, compact it down to a single 'white space'
character).

I do not think he means tab characters; he means tabs as in folder

<operating system> A {directory} in the sense of a collection
	of computer {files}.  The term is more common in systems such
	as the {Macintosh} or {Windows 95} which have a {graphical
	user interface} and provide a graphical {file browser} in
	which directories are traditionally depicted as folders (like
	small briefcases).

	(1997-03-20)

labels or JTabbedPane tabs.

--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The JAVA Glossary
http://mindprod.com

From: chunji08

Date: Monday, October 15, 2007

On Oct 12, 6:33 pm, Roedy Green <see_webs...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message:

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:56:22 GMT, "Andrew Thompson" <u32984@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>Since thetabcharacter means nothing in the context of
>HTML, a compliant browser should completely ignore it
>(or more probably, compact it down to a single 'whitespace'
>character).
I do not think he meanstabcharacters; he means tabs as in folder
labels or JTabbedPane tabs.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The JAVA Glossaryhttp://mindprod.com

Thank you Roedy and Andrew,
yes, I am looking for those tabs as if the folder labels. These days,
some of my group members becomes kind of lazy that if you do not
present everything in front of them, they wouldn't bother to click
their mouse for just once to check the URL link

1. <file system> {hard link} or {symbolic link}.

	2. <hypertext> {hyperlink}.

	(1997-10-22)

.
That is why my original idea was to give them everything in just one
html file.

But after three days' research, my feeling is a link to a URL will be
a reasonable way to do. < Maybe one day email becomes so powerful that
I can record

<data, database, programming> An {ordered set} of {fields},
	usually stored contiguously.  The term is used with similar
	meaning in several different contexts.  In a file, a "record"
	probably has some fixed length, in contrast to a "line" which
	may have any length and is terminated by some {End Of Line}
	sequence).  A {database} record is also called a "row".  In a
	{spreadsheet} it is always called a "row".  Some programming
	languages use the term to mean a type composed of fields of
	several other types ({C} calls this a "{struct}").

	In all these cases, a record represents an entity with certain
	field values.

	Fields may be of a fixed width ({bits} or {characters}) or
	they may be separated by a {delimiter} character, often
	{comma} ({CSV}) or {HT} ({TSV}).

	In a database the list of values of a given field from all
	records is called a column.

	(2002-03-22)

my voice-mail with it to instruct them what to do when
them open the e-mail

<messaging> (e-mail) Messages automatically passed from one
	computer user to another, often through computer {networks}
	and/or via {modems} over telephone lines.

	A message, especially one following the common {RFC 822}
	{standard}, begins with several lines of {headers}, followed
	by a blank line, and the body of the message.  Most e-mail
	systems now support the {MIME} {standard} which allows the
	message body to contain "{attachments}" of different kinds
	rather than just one block of plain {ASCII} text.  It is
	conventional for the body to end with a {signature}.

	Headers give the name and {electronic mail address} of the
	sender and recipient(s), the time and date when it was sent
	and a subject.  There are many other headers which may get
	added by different {message handling systems} during delivery.

	The message is "composed" by the sender, usually using a
	special program - a "{Mail User Agent}" (MUA).  It is then
	passed to some kind of "{Message Transfer Agent}" (MTA) - a
	program which is responsible for either delivering the message
	locally or passing it to another MTA, often on another {host}.
	MTAs on different hosts on a network often communicate using
	{SMTP}.  The message is eventually delivered to the
	recipient's {mailbox} - normally a file on his computer - from
	where he can read it using a mail reading program (which may
	or may not be the same {MUA} as used by the sender).

	Contrast {snail-mail}, {paper-net}, {voice-net}.

	The form "email" is also common, but is less suggestive of the
	correct pronunciation and derivation than "e-mail".  The word
	is used as a noun for the concept ("Isn't e-mail great?", "Are
	you on e-mail?"), a collection of (unread) messages ("I spent
	all night reading my e-mail"), and as a verb meaning "to send
	(something in) an e-mail message" ("I'll e-mail you (my
	report)").  The use of "an e-mail" as a count noun for an
	e-mail message, and plural "e-mails", is now (2000) also well
	established despite the fact that "mail" is definitely a mass
	noun.

	Oddly enough, the word "emailed" is actually listed in the
	Oxford English Dictionary.  It means "embossed (with a raised
	pattern) or arranged in a net work".  A use from 1480 is
	given.  The word is derived from French "emmailleure",
	network.  Also, "email" is German for enamel.

	{The story of the first e-mail message
	(http://www.pretext.com/mar98/features/story2.htm)}.

	(2002-07-14)

-:) >
Thanks all for these tips.Chun.

From: Andrew Thompson

Date: Monday, October 15, 2007

wrote in message:
...

...< Maybe one day email becomes so powerful that
I can record my voice-mail with it to instruct them what to do when
them open the e-mail -:) >

Then how do you get the end-user

<job> The person who uses a computer application, as opposed
	to those who developed or support it.  The end-user may or may
	not know anything about computers, how they work, or what to
	do if something goes wrong.  End-users do not usually have
	administrative responsibilities or privileges.

	End users are certain to have a different set of assumptions
	than the developers who created the application.

	(1997-03-29)

to open the (email
client and then the) email? Telepathy? ;-)

Andrew T.

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