Hi - was wondering is there a protocol for people who only use webmail and not an email client? At the moment my websites presume that when you click an email address it uses the Mailto and launches the email client - but what if the user only uses webmail (I’m noticing a lot of people do)… Mailto kind fails…
What would you do? Any thoughts would be great
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If you really want to cater to both audiences equally well, then set
up a contact form in your site – Tim Plumb’s fabulous PHP Feedback
Form Action will do this with a minimum of fuss. Mailto links are a
bit of dinosaur DNA that’s stuck around in Web programming well past
their sell-by date. It was always a hack, and it always relied on a
specific set of conditions being true – conditions you had (and have)
no control over under any circumstances. A form is the proper way to
gather information from a site visitor. Anyone can use it, on any
platform that can support a Web browser. You have to do extra work,
but that’s the way that Web programming goes in general – you do the
work so your visitors don’t have to.
Walter
On Aug 5, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Justin Easthall wrote:
Hi - was wondering is there a protocol for people who only use
webmail and not an email client? At the moment my websites presume
that when you click an email address it uses the Mailto and launches
the email client - but what if the user only uses webmail (I’m
noticing a lot of people do)… Mailto kind fails…What would you do? Any thoughts would be great
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Thanks Walt Ill add a form - I have done loads over the years but its always a hit and miss thing with me (not a hardcore coder) - web hosts like Fasthost and Godaddy are a mare to get that action working properly - fortunately the host I have for this project is Fatcow and I know the form action works well with this so its a result.
Thanks of the input
J
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