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I think the ideal solution would be to automatically copy the email into clipboard on desktop and use a standard mailto link on mobile. On desktop, most people use some kind of webmail, on mobile they have an app installed. Yes you can configure your browsers to open mailto links with a webmail, but almost no one does that.

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> Yes you can configure your browsers to open mailto links with a webmail, but almost no one does that.

Numbers? I always clicked "yes" to that prompt when I was using GMail as my client. Maybe I'm weird?

I don't have any numbers, however there's a tool called hunter which finds relevant email addresses for websites, and it uses copy to clipboard rather then mailto. If even most people who know about and use such a tool don't have mailto configured, probably almost no one has.

I don't know what prompt your talking about. Maybe an uncommon browser feature?

It's not uncommon. A web app can call navigator.registerProtocolHandler (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/r...) to become the default mail handler. GMail does this.

Interesting. I use gmail, and I remember that mailto links bugged me forever, until I set it up manually.

chrome://settings/handlers

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