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[Bob Schmertz]

Andrew Biggadike incurred the wrath of Bob on Oct 2, by saying

>On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 17:28, Bob Schmertz wrote:
>> This mentions that it works with Firebird, which raises the question:
>> what does Firebird (which is basically Mozilla without a mail client) do
>> when you click on a mailto: link?
>
>Without the extension you receive an Alert pop-up box saying "mailto is
>not a registered protocol."

Ouch!  Can you say "b0rken"?  I don't know if the mailto: thing is
provided for in the HTML specification, but it's certainly at least a de
facto standard that has been used by all widely used browsers.  I'm glad
I havent recommended Firebird to any of my skeptical friends.

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Cheers,
Bob Schmertz