Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.launchURL

On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Adam Barth wrote:
>
> == Use Case ==
> 
> A web site wants to launch an external protocol handler.  For example,
> a web site might want to launch PuTTY via the "ssh" scheme.

window.open('ssh://...');

I'll look at this in more detail in due course, but FWIW this appears to 
be more or less identical to a proposal from Microsoft about 18 months 
ago:

   https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20799

It's still not really clear what difference this API would have to 
window.open(), though.

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