Re:Mailgo, a new concept of mailto and tel links
by amadeuspagel on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:00AM
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I think the ideal solution would be to automatically copy the email into clipboard on desktop and use a standard mailto link on mobile. On desktop, most people use some kind of webmail, on mobile they have an app installed. Yes you can configure your browsers to open mailto links with a webmail, but almost no one does that.
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Re:Mailgo, a new concept of mailto and tel links
by kevsim on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:49AM
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> Yes you can configure your browsers to open mailto links with a webmail, but almost no one does that.
Numbers? I always clicked "yes" to that prompt when I was using GMail as my client. Maybe I'm weird?
Re:Mailgo, a new concept of mailto and tel links
by amadeuspagel on Thursday September 10, 2020 @07:14AM
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I don't have any numbers, however there's a tool called hunter which finds relevant email addresses for websites, and it uses copy to clipboard rather then mailto. If even most people who know about and use such a tool don't have mailto configured, probably almost no one has.
I don't know what prompt your talking about. Maybe an uncommon browser feature?
Re:Mailgo, a new concept of mailto and tel links
by kevsim on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:36PM
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It's not uncommon. A web app can call navigator.registerProtocolHandler (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/r...) to become the default mail handler. GMail does this.
Re:Mailgo, a new concept of mailto and tel links
by amadeuspagel on Saturday September 12, 2020 @05:18PM
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Interesting. I use gmail, and I remember that mailto links bugged me forever, until I set it up manually.