- From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 18:51:53 -0700 (PDT)
- To: maduncan@skipjack.bluecrab.org (Marc A. Duncan)
- Cc: rcuesta@arrakis.es, www-html@w3.org
Once upon a time Marc A. Duncan shaped the electrons to say... >Use the following: ><A HREF="mailto:someone@blabla.com?subject = This is the Subject"> >This will place the subject, "This is the Subject," into the subject field >in an e-mail message from a link on an HTML page. When you give bad advice, at least qualify it. Under the HTML standard and the RFCs for addressing, this is not allowed. This is a browerism. All a mailto: URL allows, officially, is an address. This works in *some* browsers, but it also breaks many browsers as they were written to the standard, not this hack. So you will get this: To: someone@blabla.com?subject = This is the Subject And that will, of course, fail - making it look like you don't know how to code a mailto lnk. -MZ -- Livingston Enterprises - Chair, Department of Interstitial Affairs Phone: 800-458-9966 510-737-2100 FAX: 510-737-2110 megazone@livingston.com For support requests: support@livingston.com <http://www.livingston.com/> Snail mail: 4464 Willow Road, Pleasanton, CA 94588
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