[X Newbies] Links in mail

[Steven Rogers]

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 11:38 AM, TheMacintoshLady wrote:

> Florin Alexander Neumann tapped out this message on 6/19/2003 11:24 AM
>
>> there's no reason for Mail to interpret HTML tags as a such, and 
>> they're ignored. Which seems to me the way it's supposed to work.
>
> Exactly. And the target="_blank" is to cause a new window to open, 
> which I guess is intended so that when the viewer is looking at this 
> fully rendered HTML in his mail app, when clicking on the link he is 
> taken from his mail app out onto the web, not simply loading another 
> HTML page into the mail application.

The target= option does that in a web browser, but *all* links in mail 
programs get referred to the browser helper. The target= option should 
be ignored by mail, but it isn't. When the anchor tag has a target= 
argument, clicking on the link in mail does nothing.

SR