- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 13:12:59 -0800
On Wednesday 2011-02-02 20:41 +0000, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > For the links to open a new web page that would actually be > handled by an external app. I remember a few years back when > Yahoo! Messenger came with such an app that set itself up as your > default mail program and opened a new window. It would be obvious > it was a separate app if you clicked on the mailto link on a > secondary browser that wasn't the system default. > > I don't know if webmail clients handle things differently. Does > this behaviour ever happen without the help of an external app or > a plugin? Webmail clients can register themselves with the browser using registerProtocolHandler: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#custom-handlers https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler Firefox also ships with some common Webmail clients pre-configured in preferences -> Applications -> mailto so they don't even need to bother registering themselves. -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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