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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MegaZone)
Tue Sep 10 02:32:49 1996
To: www-talk@w3.org
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 23:30:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Once upon a time Jerome Munchenberg shaped the electrons to say...
><A HREF="mailto:address@machine.dom?subject=my+subject">link</A>
*sigh*
This is the tag I was just talking about. It is bad, it breaks email
completely for non-netscape browsers (save for Lynx 2.5 which gave in and
supported this ugly hack, lost a few points with me for that). If you use
this, you will not be able to receive email from users using other browsers,
even older versions of Netscape.
PLEASE support the effort to have the TITLE attribute used for the subject
on mailto links. This is clean, works in several small time browsers now,
and doesn't break any standard browser - unlike the NS hack.
-MZ
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