Re: "mailto:" + EXTERN wishlist [lynx-dev]

[Klaus Weide]

On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Mike Castle wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 02:44:38AM -0500, Klaus Weide wrote:
> > > Also it doesn't handle a subject given by
> > > <A HREF="mailto:..."; TITLE=subject>.
> > 
> > Hmmm... Perhaps we should look at possibly extending the EXTERNAL
> > operations to handle more than a single parameter.  Most scripts would take
> > the standard first parameter (URI), but others could handle more (such
> > as the above title).
> 
>  We can extend the syntax of EXTERNAL command - for example %s will still be  
> substituted with url, and %t substituted with value of the TITLE attribute. Of
> course this will complicate handling, but this worth it.

The more fundamental problem is how to make the TITLE survive from HTML_*
to links[].  The question how to handle TITLE *attributes* (not <TITLE>
elements) better came up recently in connection with <LINK> elements.

   Klaus