HTML5 Send email to

[deniznasif]

Hello all,

I currently have a button which on success is set to 'send e-mail to'. Although this works as flash, it doesn't work as html5. Seems odd as to why such a simple feature wouldn't work. Am I doing something wrong? Can anybody help?

Many thanks in advance.

[RodWard]

That action doesn't actually SEND an email WITHOUT user intervention.  All it is supposed to do is trigger your current email client to open with a new blank email that YOU would then need to complete and manually send to the intended recipient.  It's really just reacting to a the equivalent of a mailto: link.

That's what it WAS supposed to do and what it USED to do in earlier versions of Captivate.  However, what I'm noticing now is that all it does is open a new browser window, not a new email from your email client.

So either something is broken in Captivate or else there has been a security change to the way the mailto: link works.

[deniznasif · Accepted solution]

It's very annoying that there are problems with what should be such a standard feature. Anyway, here's a little script that solves the issue:

window.open('mailto:test@example.com');