Issue with mailto in Chrome

[Patrick Williams]

Hi everyone,

I've been learning, using, and enjoying TiddlyWiki for 2 years now and have lurked this group quite a bit. I'm running in to an odd issue with mailto links in Chrome.

When I click my mailto link, [[te...@test.com | mailto:te...@test.com]] an email window in Outlook opens as expected, however a new blank tab opens as well. This issue is only present in Google Chrome, which is my browser of choice. I'm not using any tab related extensions or anything of the sort.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what may be causing this?

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Patrick

I've been learning, using, and enjoying TiddlyWiki for 2 years now and have lurked this group quite a bit. I'm running in to an odd issue with mailto links in Chrome.

When I click my mailto link, [[te...@test.com | mailto:te...@test.com]] an email window in Outlook opens as expected, however a new blank tab opens as well. This issue is only present in Google Chrome, which is my browser of choice. I'm not using any tab related extensions or anything of the sort.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what may be causing this?

The problem is likely to be that by default TiddlyWiki marks up external links with target=“_blank”, to cause them to open in a new window. It appears that other browsers are smart enough to realise that a mailto: link isn’t going to open in a browser, and so avoid opening the new window.

One reason that Chrome might behave differently is its support for assigning mailto: links to web applications; in that situation, perhaps they need to support opening a mailto: link in a new tab.

In the meantime, I fear that the easiest fix would be to use a custom macro to render your mailto: links. For example:

\define email-link(address)

<a href="mailto:$address$">$address$</a>

\end

<<email-link "te...@example.com">>

In my tests, I’m still seeing an unnecessary seeming confirmation dialogue from Chrome.

Best wishes

Jeremy.

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[Patrick Williams]

Jeremy,

That did it. Thanks a lot for the help, it looks like I'm going to have to dive into Macros.

On Friday, December 22, 2017 at 7:25:28 AM UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote:

Hi Patrick

I've been learning, using, and enjoying TiddlyWiki for 2 years now and have lurked this group quite a bit. I'm running in to an odd issue with mailto links in Chrome.

When I click my mailto link, [[te...@test.com | mailt...@test.com]] an email window in Outlook opens as expected, however a new blank tab opens as well. This issue is only present in Google Chrome, which is my browser of choice. I'm not using any tab related extensions or anything of the sort.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what may be causing this?