On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Nick Baum <nickb...@chromium.org> wrote:
> First of all, thanks for putting together this proposal, great to see
> progress on this!
> A few comments:
>
> - UI: I prefer the infobar, as per the arguments above. I don't think
> this will happen frequently enough to be annoying.
> - UI: Should there be user UI to manage this that doesn't require
> knowing a magic about:protocols url?
> - API: Is there an API to unregister from a protocol?
> - API: How does the page know it's registered? We should probably have
> a separate API for this, so sites can display a more prominent call to
> action when they're not registered.
>
> I had the same thoughts. Does Firefox not implement anything like this?
Another question that this brings up: how could a user un-register something
even if the web site doesn't do anything to make it possible? In other
words, we might need some piece of UI to remove registrations even beyond
having an API for it.
>
> - Misc: Should there be some way for native apps to register as
> protocol handlers? (say iTunes for mp3s, outlook for mailto, etc). Or does
> the OS provide this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Nick
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Ben Goodger (Google)
>> <b...@chromium.org>wrote:
>>
>>> We should only allow this UI to be invoked from a user gesture.
>>
>>
>> How does Gmail trigger this today? Do they have a button in the Settings
>> you have to click?
>>
>> PK
>>
>> >>
>>
>
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