- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 10:57:37 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 10:26p -0700 07/07/98, Jukka Korpela wrote: >On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Stephen Hui wrote: > >> You can set the values of subject, body and other information on such a >> link. It is done with the following: [snip] >Moreover, the URL itself has become invalid (404 File Not Found). >That's what often happens to documents which describe some phases >in works in progress. It _shouldn't_ happen of course, at least not >to documents describing important working documents (which might >well be of historical interest), but it does. Like it's so hard to create a symlink/shortcut/alias... ::sigh:: >For the purposes of HTML authoring, the proposed extended syntax >is harmful. It currently breaks on a large number of browsers. >The normal safe way of adding extensions like this would be to add >_attributes_ to the A element. Something like <A HREF="foo@bar" >SUBJECT="some subject"> That is a very browser-specific method, and URLs should be "handleable" by other kinds of apps (like Email, Usenet, etc.). The extended mailto is functional in a non-HTML environment, which is its advantage. Of course, then the discussion turns to "how about a new scheme?" ;) -Walter
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