- From: David Dorward <david@us-lot.org>
- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:18:08 +0000
- To: rmshah@starpower.net
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 11:22 -0500, RAJIV SHAH wrote:
> I am not sure whether this is the proper list for posting such a
> question
Probably not. The comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html newgroup springs
to mind as an alternative.
> but I am having a problem with the receipt of text
> being sent via the textarea tag via a form sent using an
> individual's E-mail client.
As you say you are using the reader's email client, I'm assuming you are
using a mailto: URI.
[The action] attribute specifies a form processing agent. User agent
behavior
for a value other than an HTTP URI is undefined.
-- http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.3
HTML doesn't define how mailto: URIs should be handled, and client
support is variable (often non-existent, and often buggy when supported
at all).
Use an HTTP URI with a server side form handler to process forms.
--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>
"Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another."
-- The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Received on Sunday, 13 November 2005 17:19:10 UTC