In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonas Jørgensen wrote: > jim patriarca wrote: > >> Does anybody know why when setting action="mailto:"; in an HTML form >> NS6 launches its Email program instead of popping up the the alert box >> that says something like "you are about to send your email address >> over the internet" etc.. > > Mozilla/NS6 doesn't support "mailto:"; forms. Why should it? They aren't > part af the W3C standards
they aren't part of the current standards... mailto: forms are in the HTML 3.2 standard though. >, and the forms will not work for users who are > viewing your site from public computer terminals which doesn't have a > mail client configured. i certainly wouldn't suggest that using mailto: forms is a good idea (indeed, having come across one just today, i emailed the site owner to say that they should sort out a site with a cgi instead...). however, that doesn't mean that mozilla shouldn't implement them anyway. > See <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61893>. to which i've just added a note about the HTML 3.2 standard, 'cause nobody seemed to have mentioned it yet... -- michael
