- From: Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:58:20 +0100
Mihai Sucan wrote: > No. I really meant commas, not semicolons. This is because I use commas > to separate multiple email addresses in the "To:" field in Opera M2. I'm > quite certain it also works in Outlook, Incredibly (at least last time I looked) it only works when you check a particular checkbox hidden deep in the prefs, which is off by default. Why they don't just make it work, I have no idea. Gratuitious incompatibility? > One should also take into consideration the following: > > Given a list of emails (separated by commas or semicolons), e.g.: > ana at example.com, lily at example.com, alina at example.com, spam at example.com. > > In Opera I can select this list and copy/paste it into the To field. > This just works.? > > I find it hard to believe that does *not* work in Thunderbird. It does - but see below. > Now ... if the web application is made with a markup as you've provided, > one has to manually copy/paste (or write) each email address in a single > "To:" field. This is more than boring. Not if it does the simple, smart thing that Thunderbird does - if you paste in a comma-separated list of addresses, turn it into a list of single entries. Gerv
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