One last time...
So many people can "shit on something so simple" because it's wrong.
On the internet we cannot assume anything about the client's
abilities, but we *can* control the end of the transaction we're on,
the server side. It's a simple enough concept, I assume that as an
experienced software engineer you can grasp it.
mailto: only works sometimes. Other times, it fails. Surely, as an
experienced software engineer, you first researched the subject before
you opened your yap and started yammering away about it.
Now, let's just forget all of the technical reasons why mailto: is not
suitable for use outside of a rigidly controlled intranet, and just
attack your faulty logic:
You've never seen this thing fail, but when you have seen it fail...
you're talking out both sides of your ass! How can anyone trust a man
who'll contradict himself on either side of a single punctuation mark?
You are a newbie, fool. You're arguing with people who have many years
of experience in this and related fields, about a thing that we all
know perfectly well. A seasoned professional would know that he's
stepped out of his realm after receiving our response -- a newbie
would behave as you are.
Because we're not your underqualified night school instructors. You're
misleading another and are either too damned dumb to know it, or are
too proud to admit it. In either case, you are doing a disservice to
the community. It would be a further disservice to the community were
we all to say "that's one way of doing it". You deserve to be blasted,
and the other newbies deserve to see it so they'll know not to accept
your advice at face value.
Yeah, but you're full of crap anyway so no one cares how you define
professional, pseudopneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, or
rhinoceros.
Heard that from one of your underqualified night school instructors,
didja?
That's probably a wise choice, at least in the short term.
Listening, and even discussing, are perfectly acceptable things to do
here. Misleading people is not. First learn, then teach -- that's how
it works.
There are a lot of posers in the world, and a disproportionate number
of them sit in front of computers. I feel no compulsion to be nice to
them. I've spent too many years of my life cleaning up their messes.