- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 19:41:26 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 8:37p -0400 06/15/97, Joel N. Weber II wrote:
> If only 1024 characters are supported, that's a bug, at least according
> to the GNU coding standards. It's not a design problem; it's a bug
> in your client.
I believe it's an SGML constraint...
> Perhaps a new URL scheme, say "email:"?
>
> I don't see how an email: scheme would buy you anything. Old
> clients break whether you call it email: and they totally lose;
> and old clients break the way things are.
So I guess the caring thing to do would be something like:
Extended mailto: <A HREF="mailto:me@my.com?subject=hello">Easy URL</A><BR>
Backward-compatible mailto: <A HREF="mailto:me@my.com">Hard URL</A>
...and that way people have a choice.
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