Re: "mailto:" + EXTERN wishlist [lynx-dev]

[Vlad Harchev]

On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Mike Castle wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 02:44:38AM -0500, Klaus Weide wrote:
> > > > Also it doesn't handle a subject given by
> > > > <A HREF="mailto:..."; TITLE=subject>.
> > > 
> > > Hmmm... Perhaps we should look at possibly extending the EXTERNAL
> > > operations to handle more than a single parameter.  Most scripts would 
> > > take
> > > the standard first parameter (URI), but others could handle more (such
> > > as the above title).
> > 
> >  We can extend the syntax of EXTERNAL command - for example %s will still 
> > be  
> > substituted with url, and %t substituted with value of the TITLE attribute. 
> > Of
> > course this will complicate handling, but this worth it.
> 
> The more fundamental problem is how to make the TITLE survive from HTML_*
> to links[].  The question how to handle TITLE *attributes* (not <TITLE>
> elements) better came up recently in connection with <LINK> elements.

 It's implementable. In lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html there is a description
of "mailto:"; variations supported by lynx. The obsolete (but still
supported) one is
        href="mailto:address@hidden";
so we can create such urls and store them in links[] if there is TITLE
attribute of 'A' element, and then extract subject when EXTERNAL is invoked.

 This leads to another technique - don't add fields to the links[], but append
specific strings to urls for futher use (not only for mailto urls).

> 
>    Klaus
> 

 Best regards,
  -Vlad