Re:Show HN: Setup GMail for mailto:
by herbst on Thursday October 19, 2017 @03:43PM
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Honestly not entirely sure what the purpose is, also it seems to have a few bugs: https://i.imgur.com/ciqnlbg.png
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Re:Show HN: Setup GMail for mailto:
by projectant on Thursday October 19, 2017 @08:15PM
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Yeah it's not clear. Sorry about that.
The form is just a mailto form to test how mailto links are handled in your browser / setup.
The real purpose is to use the bookmarklet at the bottom of the page on GMail.
The real question is why didn't I just change it and make it more clear? I don't know. I like mailto / protocol forms. They're pretty cool. Sending data from browser to almost anywhere, not just HTTP POST and GET. I really like that. One reason is it signals the vast affects you can have with something so simple as plain old HTML.
Ok, I'll make the font-size of the Bookmarklet bigger. Done
Edit: I also noticed the Runkit site is slow sometimes. Here is a CodePen version in case anyone needs it: https://codepen.io/dosy/full/aLMOBQ