open mailto links in new window/tab for gmail

[tbar0970]

Currently, if gmail is your mailto handler, then when you click a mailto link in Jethro it opens in the same window. That's fine while you're composing the email, but once the email sends you're left in a dead-end - "where has my jethro gone"?

One way to combat this would be to add target=_blank or similar to all mailto links. However this would open a new window/tab for users that don't use gmail (eg outlook, mac mail etc) and leave this blank window/tab behind.

We would need some more sophisticated solution: Perhaps open a new window with a Jethro page which prints a mailto link, clicks it with Javascript, then waits to see if the page unloads (which means the browser has naviated to gmail etc). If after 5 seconds the page is still there, that would mean that some other mailto handler has been launched and it should run window.close() or equivalent.

[vanoudt]

Sounds like a great idea! It's really annoying when I send using gmail - which I tend to do a lot! The accepted solution on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45359575/mailto-link-open-in-new-tab-only-if-web-mail-client?rq=1 has some code to do exactly what you've just described... perhaps that's where you got your inspiration from? :-P

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On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:48 PM, Tom Barrett ***@***.***> wrote: Currently, if gmail is your mailto handler, then when you click a mailto link in Jethro it opens in the same window. That's fine while you're composing the email, but once the email sends you're left in a dead-end - "where has my jethro gone"? One way to combat this would be to add target=_blank or similar to all mailto links. However this would open a new window/tab for users that *don't* use gmail (eg outlook, mac mail etc) and leave this blank window/tab behind. We would need some more sophisticated solution: Perhaps open a new window with a Jethro page which prints a mailto link, clicks it with Javascript, then waits to see if the page unloads (which means the browser has naviated to gmail etc). If after 5 seconds the page is still there, that would mean that some other mailto handler has been launched and it should run window.close() or equivalent. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#453>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABMNw5EsZrXpnq4v_X9LmhXGdCkDkI5Sks5td0-xgaJpZM4SoFEu> .

[tbar0970]

No, I re-invented that wheel all by myself! Thanks for that discovery - my googling somehow missed that.