Error when using mailto: link in Mobile Safari in app-capable mode

Question

I've got a form in a web page with an action that is "mailto:email" (where email is a real email address). When I load this page in Mobile Safari in regular mode (ie, not launched from home screen with app-capable mode), this works fine - after I submit the form, the email app comes up. However, when I'm in app-capable mode and have launched from the home screen (so, no Safari chrome), and submit the form I get the error "URL can't be shown". However, a regular mailto: link (ie, not in a form) does work when in app-capable mode.

Has anyone else noticed this? Any workarounds? Are forms disallowed in app-capable mode?

Thanks,

Elisabeth

Answer 1

This accurately describes the issue. There is nothing wrong with the mailto link, the mailto link fails to load. Often the webapp crashes.

The funny thing is that tel: link for telephone numbers work fine.

window.location.replace does in-fact work. Thanks!

Here is the jQuery to fix this automatically...

$('a[href^=mailto]').click(function (event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    window.location.replace = $(this).attr('href');
    return false;
});