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Looking for an unobtrusive "Email a friend" form

Does anyone know if a good "email a friend" form that doesn't require loads of javascript and tracking cookies?

AddThis seems to be very close to what I'm looking for, but even for a simple 'email a friend' link, you have to load their API.

At this point, I am considering triggering a plain-old mailto: link that's preloaded with the url and page title.

<a href="mailto:someone@somewhere.com?subject=&body=">Lame</a>

There must be something better than this???

Solution

  • I decided stick with the basic mailto: link for now, but based on my findings (or lack thereof), I probably would have coded my own form to avoid all of the baggage that comes with using a third-party plugin such as AddThis.