Re: [whatwg] registerProtocolHandler() in HTML 5 is not sufficient for real use

2009-06-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, bryan rasmussen wrote: Generally speaking, the feature was intended for sites that wished to hook into URLs provided by _other_ sites, e.g. webmail hooking into mailto:, or web-based phone systems hooking into tel:. Only schemes that are actual registered schemes are

Re: [whatwg] registerProtocolHandler() in HTML 5 is not sufficient for real use

2009-04-28 Thread bryan rasmussen
Generally speaking, the feature was intended for sites that wished to hook into URLs provided by _other_ sites, e.g. webmail hooking into mailto:, or web-based phone systems hooking into tel:. Only schemes that are actual registered schemes are supposed to be used:  

Re: [whatwg] registerProtocolHandler() in HTML 5 is not sufficient for real use

2009-04-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Mithgol the Webmaster wrote: For a real web application dealing with non-standard URL schemes, having just registerProtocolHandler() is not enough for effective management of URLs, there should be some other function (or, better, an HTTP request header) to provide