Firefox lets you set a preference to for how to handle mailto links. The choices are thunderbird, gmail, yahoo mail, or "other" which lets you browse for a mailer. It seems like its easily adaptable for any mailer than can take a subject and body from the command line.
I don't really see what the spam/validation issues are. Its not any different than invoking your mailer manually and pasting in the subject and link. You still end up with a mailer window just prefilled with the subject and link. "share now" buttons are not that frequent on arbitrary pages, and even when they are mean giving your friends email address to the site. If you worried about spam, this is the worst solution. What firefox does seems like the minimum a mailto link can do. Old Netscape also had a send page that would attach an html page that would evaulate to the current content of the link. A real benefit for links that change or require some authentication. Others have posted javascript workarounds for chromium that do the minimum. The point of my original post was that this javascript fails on the Linux versions because ExternalProtocolHandler::LaunchUrl is currently unimplemented. I was hoping their might be some indication of when it will be, or a suggestion for a different workaround. On Aug 11, 11:36 am, Adam Shannon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:07 AM, [email protected] > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > It's been a month with no reply. How are others dealing with emailing > > links? It's really tiresome cutting and pasting links and subjects. > > Are you looking for a button to easily email a link with? What email client > would everyone be forced to use, how would we validate the sender email, how > do we prevent spam? ect... > I really don't see a need for something like that given that a lot of sites > have a "share now" button embedded onto them. > > -- > - Adam Shannon (http://ashannon.us) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
