Why <a href=“mailto:” should die

We’ve all done this before. Click a link on a web page for someone’s email, then watch in horror as our native mail client fires up on our desktop.

Then struggle frantically to close the mail client before it syncs thousands of emails — because you only use gmail in the browser.

This is what I propose — change how the html mailto: link works. Just have it copy the email address! Because that’s what we usually want to do anyways.

Make sense? I mean, I’d use it.

Spread the word. Tell w3c to make it happen.