protocol handling spec?

[Jody Goldberg]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:25:09AM +0100, Dave Cridland wrote:
> 
> 'mailto' - usually referred to as the bad example of a URI scheme, 
> because it's not one - it doesn't refer to a resource, but tells you 
> to compose an email message. However, it's also trivial to handle - 
> just fire up the composer application (or general email app), and 
> away you go.

sadly it is nowhere near that clear
- different mailers support different subsets of mailto:
- There is contention on what encoding the arguments are in