Open the href mailto link in new tab / window

Question

I have an image which when click, I want to link to a mailto:

Answer 1

This answer is based on this answer Open the href mailto link in new tab / window.

Right now, new browsers support some web mail interfaces (Like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AoL, etc.).

So we can simply open a new window (Support older browser, new browsers just will open a new tab) and add a fallback (In case of non-javascript user) using preventDefault and default link redirection.

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-flow-cancelation

https://developer.mozilla.org/es/docs/DOM/event.preventDefault

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window.open

Like so:

Send a e-mail

http://jsfiddle.net/cNUNP/

Credit to https://stackoverflow.com/a/9880404/1107020

Guess that's all.

Greetings, Marcos.