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

Excellent find, I'm doing the same thing and couldn't understand why until recently. If you look round line 161 and 284 in jqtouch.js rev 109 you see that the target attribute "_Blank" will keep jqtouch from hijacking your click event. It is intercepting the event because that is the primary mechanism to move from page to page.