Ian Davey wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Betz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>I have a problem with a form on my site, it's a textarea when you hit
>>submit it sends the content to my email adress. No problem with Netscape
>>old and IE, a warning msg appears that this msg will be sent via email
>>and it sends the msg. But Mozilla opens just the email compose window
>>with no content in it. Is this a bug or do I use bad HTML?
>>
>
> You should use the CGI form email handling script that your webspace provider
> should supply, they're much more reliable. Trying to submit forms using mailto
> isn't recommended, it won't work at all with older versions of IE for
> instance, and many other browsers. So you'll wind up losing a lot of form
> submissions.
>
Thanks for the answer Ian. But many (ok, I haven't counted them, but a
friends website uses this too:) sites use mailto, so mozilla should
handle this too!? Shouldn't this be a bug if netscape and IE do it
right? But I check if I can do it the way you recomended.
thanks!
thomas
