- From: Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:41:28 +0000
"Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky at MIT.EDU> wrote: >On 2/2/11 3:22 PM, Michael Nordman wrote: >> That does sound like a bug? I'd be curious to know what the reasoning >> was for the existing sequence of steps. > > From what I can tell, current browser behavior. > >> Step 10 looks out of place too... >> >> "10. If the new resource is to be handled using a mechanism that does >> not affect the browsing context, e.g. ignoring the navigation request >> altogether because the specified scheme is not one of the supported >> protocols, then abort these steps and proceed with that mechanism >> instead." >> >> Aborting the active document sounds like an undesirable side affect >on >> the browsing context for mailto links. > >I suspect that again this is current browser behavior. > >Note that in some cases mailto: links will load a web page (and thus >abort the document they were in). So it may be worthwhile to have them > >always abort it, for consistency. > >-Boris 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? Thanks Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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