[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 14555] Spaces should be encoded as %20 in mailto URLs

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14555





--- Comment #13 from Michael A. Puls II <shadow2531 at gmail.com>  2010-09-02 06:49:21 PST ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> > What I really think is that we should forget about what other browsers do and just do what makes sense and what makes sense is encoding spaces as %20. This is supported by <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-duerst-mailto-bis/>.
> 
> As I said above, I haven't studied this issue in detail.  However, in general, ignoring the behavior of other browsers is unwise.

Understood.

To clarify though:

As far as method!="post" and method="post" with enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" (the default enctype), <http://shadow2531.com/opera/testcases/mailto/mailtoform.js> is what HTML5 is proposing.

Since browsers are broken and non-interoperable with each other, this feature currently can't be used or relied upon on the web very much. So, HTML5 specs a common ground of what browsers do and what makes sense for interoperability etc. 

There's only one line in there that's not part of HTML5 and it's my suggestion. But, ignoring my suggestion, implementing the rest would be like any HTML5 feature--Implement it and give feedback to the group.

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