open default MUA with a hyper link

[Alex Martelli]

Nemesis <nem at nowhere.invalid> wrote:

> "Alex Martelli" wrote:
> 
> >> Thank you for the link.
> >> I tried that syntax, but it seems that Internet Explorer
> >> doesn't support multiline bodies :-/
> >
> > Your choice is then to either upgrade to a better browser (IE has been
> > stagnant in features for years, resting on its laurels) or to drive IE
> > more intimately and "proprietarily" -- with win32com you can probably
> > make it turn somersaults, although your hair will whiten considerably
> > while you learn how to do so.
> 
> Actually I use Firebird ;-)

Nice database engine, but not much of a browser.  Maybe you mean
Firefox;-?

> I'm studying this syntax in order to implement it in XPN, the newsreader
> I'm writing. I'd like to use it when the article has a 
> 
> "Followup-To: poster". 
> 
> So I need a simple and multiplatform solution.
> 
> However I found that I can use an encoded form of the newline (%0A) that
> works with IE (I haven't tried yet with different browsers).I think I'll
> use the urllib.quote function in order to obtain this coding.

Sounds sensible, offhand.


Alex