I would recommend looking into how the underlying protocol system is
implemented (what the format of the command is that Windows
dispatches) then writing a script and setting that as the handler. In
Chrome you can launch an app frame like so:
path\to\chrome.exe --app URL
Your script would synthesize the URL based on the data from windows
and the URL format of the webmail provider.
-Ben
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Robert Dailey<rcdai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for getting back with me Ben.
>
> Good to know you guys are aware of the problem and looking at portable
> solutions. In the meantime, however, are you aware of any short-term
> solutions to this annoying problem? I have to say this is the one
> thing I hate about Windows 7 so far. I really don't understand how the
> new protocol system works in Windows 7 yet, nor why MAILTO isn't
> available. I'm hoping there are some registry keys I can edit
> somewhere.
>
> On Jun 26, 9:11 pm, "Ben Goodger (Google)" <b...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> It's a good idea. We've talked in the past about allowing webapps to
>> specify a manifest which (among other things) includes the list of
>> protocols that they wish to support. When a webapp is "installed" via
>> Create Application Shortcuts, we could add Chrome to the Windows list
>> on behalf of the webapp.
>>
>> There's also the registerProtocolHandler component of one of the WHAT
>> Web Apps specs.
>>
>> Definitely something we're considering, but no immediate implementation
>> plans.
>>
>> -Ben
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Robert Dailey<rcdai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > This is only somewhat related to Chromium, but I'm asking here because
>> > the chromium developers might be the most likely to know the answer.
>>
>> > I currently am running Windows 7 Ultimate x64, and I want to associate
>> > mailto: links that I click in Chromium (and anywhere, really) to be
>> > associated to a new window popping up in Chromium that opens a new
>> > email composition in GMail. I know the command for this (it involves --
>> > app), but that doesn't do me any good if I can't put it anywhere. On
>> > windows xp, all I had to do was find the MAILTO "file type" and
>> > associate the appropriate command with it and everything worked. But
>> > in Windows 7 I do not have a MAILTO protocol.
>>
>> > I go to Control Panel >> Default Programs >> Set Default Programs >>
>> > Chromium >> "Choose defaults for this program". In this window, I have
>> > "FTP", "HTTP", and "HTTPS" protocols, but no MAILTO protocol. I'm
>> > assuming this is because I have no email client installed on my
>> > operating system, and Windows 7 acts dumb and doesn't even make MAILTO
>> > available since it does not detect an email client. That's just my
>> > speculation, though.
>>
>> > Even if MAILTO was available, I don't think it would help because
>> > Windows 7 seems to have taken away the ability to associate a command
>> > with a protocol, like what was previously possible in Windows XP. Any
>> > ideas on this?
> >
>
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