Video in email?

Question

We often send emails in HTML for clients (Dont like it but not my choice)

Does anyone have any info or a link on support for the dynscrc attribute or img in email clients?

Answer 1

My solution here would be to have a screenshot (perhaps with a 'click to watch' overlay) of your movie that links to a non-mail page that has a player in it.

Dealing with html email, in my experience, isn't so much about having standards as it is learning to compromise. Web client and (the increasingly rare) desktop clients have differing behaviors that make website browser compliance seem like preschool by comparison.

Answer 2

Agreed that 'dynsrc' doesn't work, full stop.

You have three choices:

1. Put a still with a play button over the top - in my experience, this is pretty effective.
2. Use an animated GIF - you don't get any sound, and the quality is poor, but you can make it look video-ish. This doesn't work in Outlook 2007/10 either, because animated gifs don't work there.
3. Check your client-viewing base - if it's very high in Gmail, you could consider just using a YouTube tag as it will play in Gmail.