Windows Gadget mailto: link not working

Question

I'm creating a Windows Gadget and have found that my mailto links are not working at all. I have other links that work perfectly like:

<a href="http://www.yahoo.com" target="new">Yahoo</a>

But when I do this, it doesn't do anything

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>

or I also tried this

<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="new">[email protected]</a>

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The mailto: protocol works fine for me in a gadget running on Windows 7 with MS Outlook, and it also worked on my Windows Vista virtual machine after I had set up an email account with Windows Live Mail.

I would ensure that you have set up an email account on the machine you're testing with.