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What happened to mailto in Safari 6.0

This link: <A HREF="mailto:bruce@brucegust.com">bruce@brucegust.com</a> doesn't work anymore in Safari 6.0. Instead of Outlook opening up with the email address in the "To" field, it just opens up a blank page. How can I fix this?

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Shouldn't this be sort of

<a><A HREF="mailto:bruce@brucegust.com">bruce@brucegust.com</a> OR

<A HREF="mailto:bruce@brucegust.com"><a>bruce@brucegust.com</a>

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Bruce Gust

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Here's what I tried and got the exact same dynamic...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<a href="mailto:bruce@brucegust.com">Mail me</a>
</body>
</html>

When I clicked on the link, it opened up mailto:bruce@brucegust.com as another page. Have no idea how or why this is happening...

Fact is, it's never been an issue. This has worked on all platforms until I tried this on Safari 6. Any other thoughts?

Bruce Gust

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BTW: I added target="_blank" as well as mailto://bruce@brucegust.com and neither of those two additions helped. I got the same result.

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Bruce Gust

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I think I figured it out. I recently updated my operating system to Mountain Lion which doesn't support PowerPC programs rendering my Entourage useless. I'm thinking the link, which would otherwise work, because Entourage isn't working, results in getting the webpage.

Oh well...