11740 2006-12-01 19:25:36 -0800 Javascript generated mailto: link (on Form submit) does not work in Safari 2007-10-21 22:47:47 -0700 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit Forms 420+ Mac OS X 10.4 NEW http://www.digitalmars.com/contact.html P2 Normal --- 1 myrd webkit-unassigned ain ap ddkilzer oldest_to_newest 43550 0 myrd 2006-12-01 19:25:36 -0800 See: http://www.digitalmars.com/contact.html The website uses the following code to generate a mailto: link equivalent (and to prevent spam): <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript"> <!-- var Domain = "digitalmars.c"; var Mailme = "mai" + "lto:w" + "gmars7@" + Domain + "om"; document.write("<FORM>"); document.write("<INPUT TYPE=\"submit\" VALUE=\"Send email to Digital Mars\" "); document.write("onClick=\"parent.location=Mailme\"> "); document.write("</FORM>"); // --> </SCRIPT> This code works fine in Firefox 2.0 (and other browsers), but fails in latest Tiger Safari, as well as nightly r17960. This is a pretty important website (Digital Mars is the creator of the D programming language, a really good language that hasn't yet caught on: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ ). 58876 1 ain 2007-10-19 17:21:43 -0700 What happens is that your form gets posted. You should remove the form tags at all or set the submit to return false, e.g. <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript"> var Domain = "digitalmars.c"; var Mailme = "mail"+"to:w" + "gmars7@" + Domain + "om"; var html = "<form onsubmit='return false;'><input type='submit' value='send email' onclick='javascript:document.location.href=\""+Mailme+"\"'></form>"; document.write(html); </SCRIPT> Also, you'll not get a valid code out of this with just plain-empty form tags which is not the case if you leave them out. 58880 2 myrd 2007-10-19 18:13:04 -0700 But it works in other browsers. Which makes Safari the incompatible one. 58902 3 ain 2007-10-20 03:55:45 -0700 I don't agree incompatibility. The latest Opera 9.24 behaves the very same way. And these are the first browsers to pass Acid2. In my humble opinion this is the case of valid coding. It is programmatically proper to be precise and strict in respect to the open standards. 58903 4 ain 2007-10-20 04:04:31 -0700 By the W3C HTML 4.01 Specification: - submit buttons: When activated, a submit button submits a form. A form may contain more than one submit button. 59083 5 16782 ap 2007-10-21 22:37:24 -0700 Created attachment 16782 test case (with javascript: URL) 59088 6 ap 2007-10-21 22:47:47 -0700 We certainly want to be compatible with IE and Firefox, and I actually don't think that this behavior is non-standard. Onclick fires before submitting the form, and javascript/mailto URLs can be loaded synchronously. After that, the form is submitted. See also: bug 13011. 16782 2007-10-21 22:37:24 -0700 2007-10-21 22:37:24 -0700 test case (with javascript: URL) 11740.html text/html 218 ap PFNDUklQVD4KdmFyIHVybCA9ICJqYXZhc2NyaXB0OmFsZXJ0KCdTVUNDRVNTJykiOwpkb2N1bWVu dC53cml0ZSgiPEZPUk0+Iik7CmRvY3VtZW50LndyaXRlKCI8SU5QVVQgVFlQRT0nc3VibWl0JyBW QUxVRT0nQ2xpY2sgbWUgdG8gc2VlIGFuIGFsZXJ0JyBvbkNsaWNrPSdwYXJlbnQubG9jYXRpb249 dXJsJz4gIik7CmRvY3VtZW50LndyaXRlKCI8L0ZPUk0+Iik7CjwvU0NSSVBUPgo=