Sending Multi-Format Email Attachments to Posterous
Another aspect of Posterous that I've yet to experiment with is what happens with emails that contain multiple different file formats. My assumption is that Posterous will be able to recognise the difference and prepare each format accordingly, but as always it's wise to test assumptions and see how well they stack up to reality.Therefore this post will include 3 different formats - audio, video and still images - all of which were captured or recorded by and then emailed from my mobile.This particular test also incorporates a series of three images to see what happens when there are multiple files present of the same format. I've seen posts in which images are wrapped in a player and can be browsed through sequentially, however I'm unaware of whether that happens by default and wanted to find out.Futhermore, as I discovered in previous tests, Posterous does not necessarily include embedded content in autoposted instances of posts. So I'm attepting to determine whether this is a blanket policy that applies to audio, video and images alike, or just certain formats.Finally, as far as the audio recording is concerned, I had attempted to record an introduction to the experiment, citing what I was doing, why, and what my predictions were for the outcome - however the arrival of a freight train just meters from where I was stranding more or less scuttled that plan - as you'll hear at the end of the recording.
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I'm loving your experiments - really really valuable!
Look forward to the next episodes! ;-)
I think it's a security precaution to keep people from adding content that might have virus nastiness in it, but what it does mean is you can't listen to/watch content in-line with the text in the post.
The images are embedded though. Watch this space for more tinkering :)
