Using Wix Editor, I’m interested in avoiding problems with custom social share buttons and mailto: buttons that occur with the use of window pop-ups.
Currently, I have share and mailto: buttons that open an html window. But pop-up blockers (often the default in browsers) block these.
Yet, when I go, say, to NYTimes.com, their social share and mailto: functions are not constrained by the browser having pop-ups blocked.
Why is that? Is there a Wix Velo method to accomplish the same?
Thanks!
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Anthony, thanks for the suggestion. The wixLocation to() function has the same limitation as simply assigning the mailto: link to a button. Email clients now generally only use the to address and the subject parts of the mailto: URL. The objective, however, is to include content in the body of the email using the body: component of the mailto: URL.
This can be achieved on desktop using the HTML window (if popups are allowed) with the window.open(mailtoUrl) function. But in mobile the new window opens but the default email app is not being opened.
As I noted, other sites (like nytimes) have email share buttons that work with mobile (opening the configured email msg in the default email app) and include body content from the link. Is this not possible in Wix?