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.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >
>> >
>
>

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