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by aaronem 4530 days ago
I've never seen a prompt to open a mailto: link. Where is it specified there should be one?
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I think by "interactive prompt" he means "user interaction".
I suppose I can see an argument for popping something up before firing the schema handler when something sets location.href to a mailto: URL, but that seems like the sort of thing where you'd really want to wait for evidence that it's a problem for anyone before you implement it; it both annoys the user and complicates your code, neither of which is desirable in the absence of real provocation.