I had included the link to the specification in the design document: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/browsers.html#dom-navigator-registerprotocolhandler
-brad On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]> wrote: > I totally agree. I envision it being something much more like RSS feeds. > In my mind, it should always advertise itself to the browser and then the > browser should decide how to advertise it to the user. Requiring scripts to > initiate things seems silly to me. > Is this API even part of any standard? Maybe we should bring this up on > WhatWG? > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Ben Goodger (Google) <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> BTW I think this API (and the associated registerContentHandler) >> aren't that great... imagine a feed reader that wants to handle feed >> types and feed protocol links... do they need to call these functions >> one per protocol scheme and per feed content type (there are several), >> showing a UI for each? This sort of thing seems better handled through >> some kind of manifest. >> >> -Ben >> >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I've added this to my list for review by the group. >> > -Darin >> > >> > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Brian Rakowski <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> You should talk with the open web leads (darin, ifette, dglazkov, >> >> slightlyoff) for help on floating this out there. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Nick Baum <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> I've never done this, but I'm happy to learn. I got an intro to how to >> >>> do >> >>> it a few weeks back re:some extensions APIs. >> >>> Where do I send the email? I'll send out a draft here beforehand. >> >>> >> >>> -Nick >> >>> >> >>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Brad Green (大面包) <[email protected]> >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >> >>>> >> > API: How does the page know it's registered? >> >>>> >> >> >>>> > If Gmail notices you have Chrome and this isn't set, it might put a >> >>>> > big >> >>>> > promo on your inbox page. However, if it's already set, if would of >> >>>> > course >> >>>> > want to hide this. >> >>>> >> >>>> I understand your point now. It is something that should be brought >> >>>> up in whatwg and discussed. >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
