Re: Editorial comments on HTML 2.0 Draft 3/31/95

lilley (lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk)
Wed, 19 Apr 95 10:09:13 EDT

Paul Burchard writes

> Bruce Kahn/Iris <Bruce_Kahn/Iris.IRIS@iris.com> writes:

> > In the same paragraph, "The SUBMIT button is used to
> > e-mail or send its contents to the server as specified by
> > the ACTION attribute," should be changed to include

> Something else...what's the bit about "e-mail" doing in there?
> HTML 2.0 doesn't support mailto FORMs.

Why was that design decision made? Current browsers are able to support
mailto forms, it is after all a valid access protocol - even if Mosaic
has only just finally started supporting it ;-)

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