[7396] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Forms, mailto-URLs, and The Right Thing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Hartill)
Fri Jan 27 10:52:16 1995
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 16:17:38 +0100
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From: Rob Hartill <hartill@ooo.lanl.gov>
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>
> The Right Thing here would be:
> Where the action attribute in a <form> element is a "mailto" URL, and
> the method attribute is "post", create a message on the fly and send
> the contents of the <input>s of the form to the mail address given by
> the URL
>
> And I would very much like to see other browsers copy the Netscape
> approach.
.but not if that means sending URL encoded mail to human readers when
the form explicitly asks for plain text to be sent.
i=Mail+which+looks+anything+like%0D%0Athis+isn%27t+particularly+readable%0D%0Ais+it+%3F
rob.
