On 2/2/11 3:22 PM, Michael Nordman wrote:
That does sound like a bug? I'd be curious to know what the reasoning
was for the existing sequence of steps.
From what I can tell, current browser behavior.
Step 10 looks out of place too...
"10. If the new resource is to be handled using a mechanism that does
not affect the browsing context, e.g. ignoring the navigation request
altogether because the specified scheme is not one of the supported
protocols, then abort these steps and proceed with that mechanism
instead."
Aborting the active document sounds like an undesirable side affect on
the browsing context for mailto links.
I suspect that again this is current browser behavior.
Note that in some cases mailto: links will load a web page (and thus
abort the document they were in). So it may be worthwhile to have them
always abort it, for consistency.
-Boris
