mailto link

[Thomas Dowling]

An HREF attribute contains a URL, not HTML, so browsers shouldn't parse HTML
character entities.

You might try "%3F" as a hex code, but the URL spec in RFC 1738 makes it
look like a browser should simply understand that as a question mark, and do
whatever it would do if it just received "?".

'Course, this is the same spec that says "mailto:" needs to be followed by
an address that complies with RFC 822 and nothing else, and you can see how
da boys at Netscape have screwed that up.  Something to remember the next
time you hear them proclaiming their allegiance to open standards.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu




>doesn't that need to be ? with the semi colon...
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>>Did you try coding the link as &#63 [for the question mark] ..as in
>>person&ris#63place at host.com ...just a thought...
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