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Yea, I’m feeling this. I submitted a bug report, and while there was a lot of “care”, the result was “not a bug, won’t fix”. On the one hand, I can understand t
by RileyJames 5y ago
Yea, I’m feeling this. I submitted a bug report, and while there was a lot of “care”, the result was “not a bug, won’t fix”. On the one hand, I can understand that. But on the other, it’s a crappy user experience, and the apple I supported, I’d expect to fix it.
It’s why I’d rather support opensource now. As, at least if no one cares to fix it, it can do it myself, or pay someone else to.
The bug: the default iOS mail client chokes if you copy and paste an email link into the to, cc or bcc field. Ie: “mail to:test@test.com”.
The response was “that’s how links work, that’s not a bug in the client”, and while technically that’s true. The best user experience would be parse out the “mailto:” when pasted into the to,cc,bcc field rather than failing to send the email.
And yes, from safari you can select “open in mail” and it will work. But if you need to copy a second mail link to cc, you’re stuffed.
- fouc 5y agoCopy'n'pasting "mailto:test@test.com" into gmail's new mail "to:" field also doesn't magically remove the mailto: part either.
- RileyJames 5y agoOk. Well I’d consider them both subpar experiences. And I think it quite clearly could be better.
- smcl 5y agoChokes as in, it freezes up or something?
- RileyJames 5y agoAs in, it doesn’t send the email. And there’s no way to edit out the “mailto:” portion. So the solution is to copy and paste the link into a text editor/notepad, remove the “mailto:” portion and then copy and paste the remaining portion into the mail client to,cc,bcc field. And I think a better solution would be to either: A) automatically parse out the mailto: portion when pasting into the to,cc,bcc field. Or B) prompt the user before doing A. Ie “do you mean to send to test@test.com?”
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