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Re: MAILTO: element

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From: Darold Lindquist
Date: Mar 11, 2002 10:13AM

My thoughts are that in most cases this method is preferable and actually
improves accessibility/usability of the feature. When the window opens into
the E-mail client, the user is placed into the familiar interface of that
program. By sending the message from the E-mail program the user will also
then have a copy of the message saved in their sent messages folder, making
the correspondence easier to archive and reference.

Darold

At 11:35 AM 3/11/02, you wrote:
>Situation: WAI Priority 2 - 10.1 states: Until user agents allow users to
>turn off spawned windows, do not cause pop-ups or other windows to appear
>and do not change the current window without informing the user.
>
>Question: Would not the <_a href="mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> "></a> code create
>a pop-up window? In the major browsers it launches the associated email
>client (Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Messanger, etc.) in a seperate
>"window". One could argue that this is "anticipated" behaviour and is not
>an accessibility issue per-se, but I'm curious about this and would like to
>poll the group.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>JF
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