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Re: HTML questions ? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MegaZone)
Tue Sep 10 03:01:06 1996
To: www-talk@w3.org
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 23:12:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Once upon a time Murray Maloney shaped the electrons to say...
>I just noticed this. I am at the HTML ERB meeting
>in San Francisco, where this very subject came up
>today. Netscape does in fact have a way to do this,
>but it does not use the TITLE attribute on <A>, but
>uses an extension to the mailto method.
Yes - which *BREAKS* email from other browsers because they, rightly,
try to send email to that string. So you don't get the email, and the user
gets an error. Thanks NS.
>There is a non-zero possibility that wider support
>for using the TITLE attribute to set the subject
>field in a mail message could be included in the
>Cougar specification. Encouragement by the user
>community would provide additional impetus.
Ha! You want support. I can't count the number of times I have fielded
this question on HTML Writer's Guild mailing lists and on a number of USEnet
groups. It has reached the point that most of the time there are several
threads on 'how do I set a subject' running concurrently! On one HWG list
alone, just this past week, there were 3 seperate discussions about this.
And, of course, the more naive users suggested the NS solution, thinking it
was safe, and I had to explain what it does to other browsers and how they
could use TITLE so that at least a few browsers would support it and it
wouldn't break the rest.
PLEASE fight for this in Cougar. I'm 25, I don't want to go grey yet... ;-)
-MZ
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