I can't get mailto links to open the Mail app from Mobile Safari when using jQTouch. What could be wrong?

Question

I\'m developing an iPhone web app using jQTouch, and it contains a simple mailto: link to a valid email address, which should launch the iPhone mail application

Answer 1

I looked again at the example code in the jQTouch demo package and saw that they were adding a target="_blank" attribute to their email link.

I did this to my link, and it began working (popping up the mail client window). However, the link that's in a standard web page works as well, but without the target="_blank" attribute...

I'm puzzled, but adding that attribute seems to solve this problem if your mobile page is using jQTouch.