RE: web+: enabling websites to expose services with custom URI schemes to registerProtocolHandler.

How about modularizing HTML5 so that "registering protocol handlers for URI schemes" is in a separate document from HTML.
Can protocol handlers be registered by anything other than text/html? Can SVG register protocol handlers?


-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:34 AM
To: Philippe Le Hegaret
Cc: Barry Leiba; Mark Nottingham; public-ietf-w3c@w3.org
Subject: Re: web+: enabling websites to expose services with custom URI schemes to registerProtocolHandler.

On 2012-08-01 19:33, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
> Following the morning discussion, here are the links to the web+
> definition:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/system-state-and-capabilities.html#custom-handlers

>    look for the item on scheme (registerProtocolHandler() only)
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/iana.html#web-scheme-prefix

>    Note that the Working Group is about to decide that this section needs
> rewrite because it must not look like an IANA registration.
>
> I also suggest to look at the rational section of a change proposal
> related to this:
>   http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/User:Eoconnor/ISSUE-189#Rationale

>
> Philippe

Two observations:

a) in the meantime, the HTML WG chairs have decided to reject my CP and 
to keep "web+" in the spec (see 
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Aug/0115.html>)

b) all feedback I've seen over here seems to come from people either 
active in the IETF, or both IETF and W3C; what are the next steps to 
actually make progress now?

Best regards, Julian