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The Economist embeds Gmail links in emails, not “mailto:”

• TazeTSchnitzel 4y ago
  Wanna bet this came about accidentally from copying text viewed in GMail, which probably does this replacement on all incoming mail?
  • beardyw 4y ago
    "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
• crayboff 4y ago
  Is there an easy way (without having to research and install 3rd party software) for non techie users to be able to set their email client to Gmail, AOL, etc? I know a lot of people who prefer to use their email in the browser without using a desktop client. If you click on a mailto: link without your desktop client set up it will launch the setup process, it's not a great user experience. Are there better alternatives than using "mailto"?
  • Flankk 4y ago
  • zinekeller 4y ago
    I hate to point to Google, but they have a format that allows prompting in Chrome whether to associate mailto to that webapp. Microsoft/Outlook.com/Hotmail doesn't prompt for it (and apparently there's no way short of JS-whipping that will just accept mailto if you want to do it manually), but I have seen Yahoo prompting for that.
• torstenvl 4y ago
  To be fair, mailto: is handled the worst possible way on webmail. It should be relatively easy for the browser to have a little envelope icon in the address bar when you're on a major webmail site. Such an icon, when clicked, could offer to register that webmail service as your mailto: target.