[wplug] Web eMail Link Mozilla

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Thursday 02 October 2003 18:01, Bob Schmertz wrote:
> 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 can say version 0.6.1 - things are bound to be incomplete.

It would also be interesting to figure out what a browser that:
- has no native mail component
- has no knowledge of the OS it's running on
- has no knowledge of other applications available
should do, when someone clicks on a mailto: component.

-A