39572 - Pasting mailto: links into Compose window should Do The Right Thing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32358

(MailNews Core :: Networking, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

For HTTP URLs, you can do a Copy Link Location in a page, paste it into a URL 
bar and you are away. However, if you try this for mailto: URLs, and paste them 
into a Compose window or Address Book window, it doesn't cunningly remove the 
mailto: to make the address valid.

This would be a really neat thing to have work :-)

Gerv

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

yes this would be cool.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham]

mscott - is this simple enough to do before FCS? As you said, it would be cool.

Gerv

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 32358, which includes replacing "copy link location" with 
"copy e-mail address" on the context menu for mailto links.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I'll do bug 32358 instead - it's easier :-)

Gerv

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32358 ***

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

I don't think this is really a duplicate, although fixing the other bug might
help most people in this situation. The reason why is that fixing the PASTE
behavior is different than fixing the CUT behavior in some situations.

For example, I might have a mailto: URL in the clipboard from notebook or some
other text editor.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

It's not an exact dupe; but if you are copying out of anywhere else, you have 
the choice of selecting the right bit :-) In a browser, that's not possible, 
because the text is behind the link.

If you want to implement this half, feel free :-)

Gerv

Comment 7

[fenella]

Mark it verified/dup.