- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:59:25 +0000 (UTC)
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 supposed to be used: > > > > ? http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.html > > > > This is not intended for sites that make up their own. > > Is that written anywhere? > > This cute and non-normative section implies otherwise: > > ||[ Protocol Handler Registration ]||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > | | > | This Web page: | > | | > | Kittens at work | > | http://kittens.example.org/ | > | | > | ...would like permission to handle the protocol "x-meow:" | > | using the following Web-based application: | > | | > | Kittens-at-work displayer | > | http://kittens.example.org/?show=%s | > | | > | Do you trust the administrators of the "kittens.example. | > | org" domain? | > | | > | ( Trust kittens.example.org ) (( Cancel )) | > |____________________________________________________________| I've attempted to address this (in part by changing the example above, and in part by explicitly saying "This feature is not intended to be used with non-standard protocols"). Is the new text suitably clearer on this? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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