In order to support the use case on Epiphany browser, we need to support this feature on WK2 first. Besides, as far as I know, EFL browser will have similar use-case by using this feature. Thus, in my humble opinion, similar use cases can be more required in near future.
Gyuyoung. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 10:31 +0900, Gyuyoung Kim wrote: > > I would like to listen what do you think to support > > 'registerProtocolHandler' in WebKit2. > > > > This feature is to execute web content through registered custom > > protocol. > > Hi, > > I think this would be useful for GNOME. One of our goals is for the > user to be able to set GMail as the default mail application in System > Settings. If the user visits gmail.com and it attempts to register > itself as a mailto:// handler, I envision the WebKitGTK+ would fire a > signal that would trigger Epiphany to display an info bar to ask the > user for approval. If the user approves the registration, we would go > one step further: we'd create a new web application for GMail and in > the desktop file indicate support for the MIME type x-scheme > -handler/mailto (or if the user already has a GMail web application, > modify the desktop file to add that MIME type). The user would then be > able to set the GMail web app as the default mail application > systemwide. > > We would restrict this functionality to HTTPS sites only. I'd greatly > prefer that restriction to be enforced by WebKit rather than > implementing that policy in Epiphany. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev >
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