2009/5/1 Frederik Ramm <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Thomas Wood wrote: >> Others have stated before that the mime type option is really the only >> sane one for this sort of thing, rather than the awful localhost URIs >> the the JOSM remote control uses presently. > > Call me biased but I find a certain elegance in the way these "awful > localhost URIs" do not require any configuration. You do not have to > register JOSM as an application for a certain MIME type; you do not have > to fiddle with your browser configuration to install a helper > application; just fire up JOSM and it works. > > Granted, the localhost URIs fail miserably if you do not have JOSM > running already. If it were'nt for the same-origin policy one could at > least call them using XMLHttpRequest and present a popup on error... > > (I'd love to be able to write: "You can carry JOSM with you on an USB > stick and run it in an Internet cafe with no privileges on the machine", > but unfortunately we still lack a "--my-home-directory-is-on-the-stick" > option.) >
Over eager firewall's permitting of course. Dave _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
