When creating a mailto form in Learn HTML In a Weekend, Im not able to send the form, but only get a blank message composition window. Whats happening?
While Internet Explorer 5.5 did, Internet Eplorer 6 no longer supports sending mailto form responses. The latest versions of the Netscape browser (and the Mozilla browser) also no longer support sending mailto form responses. They still support mailto links, however. If you want to test out sending and receiving mailto form responses, you can download and install Netscape Communicator 4.78 from ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.78/windows/windows95_or_nt/complete_install. (Note: If asked to make it your default mail program, just click no or cancel.) If you want to publish forms to the Web, your only choice is to use a CGI form. You can check if your Web host provides a form-processing CGI script you can use. If so, just follow their instructions. You can also sign up to use a free third-party form-processing script — they usually include advertising on the submission confirmation page. You can find lists of free third-party form-processing scripts at these two script
