- From: poot <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 11:36:39 +0900 (JST)
- To: public-html-diffs@w3.org
registerContentHandler() clarifications. (whatwg r3124)
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http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.2282.html#sample-handler-impl
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.2282.html#manually-releasing-the-storage-mutex
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.2282.html#dom-navigator-registercontenthandler
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.diff.html
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.2281&r2=1.2282&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3123&to=3124
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--- Overview.html 25 May 2009 01:27:08 -0000 1.2281
+++ Overview.html 25 May 2009 02:35:01 -0000 1.2282
@@ -43976,8 +43976,9 @@
interface. UAs could also simply silently collect the information,
providing it only when relevant to the user.</p>
- <p>There is <a href="#sample-handler-impl">an example of how these
- methods could be presented to the user</a> below.</p>
+ <p>User agents should keep track of which sites have registered
+ handlers (even if the user has declined such registrations) so that
+ the user is not repeatedly prompted with the same request.</p>
<p>The arguments to the methods have the following meanings and
corresponding implementation requirements:</p>
@@ -43996,6 +43997,9 @@
(as in "<code>ftp:</code>"), will never match anything, since
schemes don't contain colons.</p>
+ <p class="note">This feature is not intended to be used with
+ non-standard protocols.</p>
+
</dd>
<dt><var title="">mimeType</var> (<code title="dom-navigator-registerContentHandler"><a href="#dom-navigator-registercontenthandler">registerContentHandler()</a></code> only)</dt>
@@ -44015,6 +44019,10 @@
whitespace, or include MIME parameters, then the handler being
registered will never be used.</p>
+ <p class="note">The type is compared to the MIME type used by the
+ user agent <em>after</em> the sniffing algorithms have been
+ applied.</p>
+
</dd>
@@ -44199,14 +44207,17 @@
<p>The <code title="dom-navigator-registerProtocolHandler"><a href="#dom-navigator-registerprotocolhandler">registerProtocolHandler()</a></code>
method could display a modal dialog box:</p>
- <pre>||[ Protocol Handler Registration ]|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
+ <pre>||[ Content Handler Registration ]||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |
| This Web page: |
| |
| Kittens at work |
| http://kittens.example.org/ |
| |
-| ...would like permission to handle the protocol "x-meow:" |
+| ...would like permission to handle files of type: |
+| |
+| application/x-meowmeow |
+| |
| using the following Web-based application: |
| |
| Kittens-at-work displayer |
@@ -44220,8 +44231,8 @@
<p>...where "Kittens at work" is the title of the page that invoked
the method, "http://kittens.example.org/" is the URL of that page,
- "x-meow" is the string that was passed to the <code title="dom-navigator-registerProtocolHandler"><a href="#dom-navigator-registerprotocolhandler">registerProtocolHandler()</a></code>
- method as its first argument (<var title="">protocol</var>),
+ "application/x-meowmeow" is the string that was passed to the <code title="dom-navigator-registerContentHandler"><a href="#dom-navigator-registercontenthandler">registerContentHandler()</a></code>
+ method as its first argument (<var title="">mimeType</var>),
"http://kittens.example.org/?show=%s" was the second argument (<var title="">url</var>), and "Kittens-at-work displayer" was the third
argument (<var title="">title</var>).</p>
@@ -44230,13 +44241,15 @@
remembered.</p>
<p>When the user then attempts to fetch a URL that uses the
- "x-meow:" scheme, then it might display a dialog as follows:</p>
+ "application/x-meowmeow" MIME type, then it might display a dialog
+ as follows:</p>
- <pre>||[ Unknown Protocol ]||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
+ <pre>||[ Unknown File Type ]|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |
| You have attempted to access: |
| |
-| x-meow:S2l0dGVucyBhcmUgdGhlIGN1dGVzdCE%3D |
+| data:application/x-meowmeow;base64,S2l0dGVucyBhcmUgd |
+| GhlIGN1dGVzdCE%3D |
| |
| How would you like FerretBrowser to handle this resource? |
| |
@@ -44249,8 +44262,8 @@
| ( ) Pass this URL to the "Kittens-at-work displayer" |
| application at "kittens.example.org". |
| |
-| [ ] Always do this for resources using the "x-meow" |
-| protocol in future. |
+| [ ] Always do this for resources using the "application/ |
+| x-meowmeow" protocol in future. |
| |
| ( Ok ) (( Cancel )) |
|____________________________________________________________|</pre>
@@ -44261,11 +44274,11 @@
<p>If the user does select that option, then the browser, in
accordance with the requirements described in the previous two
sections, will redirect the user to
- "http://kittens.example.org/?show=x-meow%3AS2l0dGVucyBhcmUgdGhlIGN1dGVzdCE%253D".</p>
+ "http://kittens.example.org/?show=data%3Aapplication/x-meowmeow;base64,S2l0dGVucyBhcmUgdGhlIGN1dGVzdCE%253D".</p>
- <p>The <code title="dom-navigator-registerContentHandler"><a href="#dom-navigator-registercontenthandler">registerContentHandler()</a></code>
- method would work equivalently, but for unknown MIME types instead
- of unknown protocols.</p>
+ <p>The <code title="dom-navigator-registerProtocolHandler"><a href="#dom-navigator-registerprotocolhandler">registerProtocolHandler()</a></code>
+ method would work equivalently, but for schemes instead of unknown
+ content types.</p>
</div><h4 id="manually-releasing-the-storage-mutex"><span class="secno">6.8.3 </span>Manually releasing the storage mutex</h4><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">window</var> . <code title="dom-navigator"><a href="#dom-navigator">navigator</a></code> . <code title="dom-navigator-getStorageUpdates"><a href="#dom-navigator-getstorageupdates">getStorageUpdates</a></code>()</dt>
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