Determine user's default email client

[Andrew DeFaria]

JRS: In article <[email protected]




Failure.

I can't help it if *you* don't have a sense of humor!

It did.


It is not; it is approximately 5%. Now read what you wrote with
intelligence and thoughtfulness.

As you say doc, "failure". You assumed I wrote it. I did not.

If the first sentence is assumed to be true, then the second and third
considered jointly follow logically only if the people that you are
addressing, and their best friends, are Americans. But the majority of
the readers of this newsgroup are non-Americans, and the same will
generally be true of their best friends.

There ya go again, analyzing... Do us all a favor doc and go out and get
a sense of humor!

You illustrate thereby a typical American attitude;

And why would you assume otherwise considering I'm an American....

one which needs to be remedied if your country is not to continue to
lose what friends it still has.

With friends like you... Well you know the rest! Let's just say that my
friends have a sense of humor.
Hey doc, lay off those books and get a life! (Again, geeze!)

 

[Andrew DeFaria]

I don't believe it had support for mailto: either. But its irrelevant.
When you have to go back 9 1/2 years to find a browser that doesn't
support forms and I only have to go back 1 day to find a browser that
doesn't handle mailto: properly, I will stick with the form.

You asked me to name a browser. I did. Geeze!

That doesn't break the form nor navigation aspects.

Really? How doesn't it? If a user of a browser cannot navigate to the
form then it's broken (at least for that user).

Its the implementation of a stupid/ignorant web author that breaks it.
Not the basic functionality of it.

Basic functionality meaning "It don't work" is indeed broken.

As many IE-only sites as I encounter, I agree 100%.

Good. Agreement.

I have never said either was 100%. I said the form was *more* reliable
than a mailto:

Then it would get down to a numbers game. BTW at work today a guy
approached me and relayed the fact that he can no longer get to his web
based email. Seems the company has implemented filtering such that such
web based email clients are no longer working.

Thats not the form itself breaking.

Huh? It's part of the form! It doesn't work and instead of allowing the
user to continue the user cannot send any email whatsoever. How is this
not a broken form?

Thats the moronic/ignorant web author making it dependent on something
that may or may not be available. It still doesn't change the
reliability of the form itself.

Not true. The form doesn't work - it doesn't even display. The user
cannot use it. Communication is halted. What else do you need to admit
that it failed?

Well, you can stop saying you don't know of a single person who relies
solely on web based email. I am one of them in one scenario, not one
in another.

Yeah but I don't really know you! ;-)

When I am at work, it is 100% web-based. And for my personal primary
email address, it is web-based as well. And it simply can *not* be set
up with an email client.

Sorry to hear that. Perhaps you should get a better email provider! If
you were to work here chances are you'd be totally emailless!

And based on your personal experience, you say that mailto: is
reliable. But based on *my* personal experience, mailto: breaks more
often.

So then we should simply agree to disagree.

As long as you quote it out of context, nothing. Quoted in its
original context, which was a precursor to my next statement, it shows
that ~20% of the people on the web can not use that mailto: link.


No, the code that I posted can be viewed here:

<URL:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/networking/predefined/mailto.asp
/>

But are you saying you have problems with this form:

Did I? I don't recall saying that I have problem with this form. I'm not
talking about a <form action="mailto">. That's not a link anyway really.

<form action="emailIt.php">
<input type="text" name="emailAddress" size="80">
<input type="text" name="subjectLine" size="80">
<textarea rows="80" cols="200"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Send Email">
</form>

If so, you need a new browser.

Really? Why? I'm confused about what you are talking about here!

Nor can you tell which email client they have installed nor how it
will react to a mailto: that contains more than an email address.

Did I say it contains more than an email address?

And that seems to be the predominate use that I have seen of them is
when the page author attempts to fill out the from, to, subject and
body of the email.

Quite frankly this is the first time I've ever seen such a thing!

Not a tough nut to swallow. I have no problems with the fact that you
have never had trouble (maybe minor ones). But when you claim that
based on your experience that a form is less reliable than mailto then
it gets beyond a nut to swallow. Not when the majority of
articles/posts/webpages I have read on them speak directly to the
unreliability of the mailto: based simply on the fact that you have no
way of knowing how, even if it will, react to the mailto: the way you
think it will.

As I said, we should agree to disagree.