- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:08:29 +0200
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- CC: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, "michel@suignard.com" <michel@suignard.com>, "tony@att.com" <tony@att.com>, "plh@w3.org" <plh@w3.org>, "stpeter@stpeter.im" <stpeter@stpeter.im>, "adil@diwan.com" <adil@diwan.com>, "robin@berjon.com" <robin@berjon.com>, "ted.ietf@gmail.com" <ted.ietf@gmail.com>, John O'Conner <jooconne@adobe.com>, "presnick@qualcomm.com" <presnick@qualcomm.com>, "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, "chris@lookout.net" <chris@lookout.net>, "public-ietf-w3c@w3.org" <public-ietf-w3c@w3.org>
On 2012-09-10 10:01, Larry Masinter wrote: > since this affects ietf and w3c, and public-ietf-w3c is publicly > archived, could someone explain why allowing registering arbitrary > web+xxx scheme handlers is any better than allowing arbitrary > (unblacklisted) xxx scheme handlers? > ... I think the idea is that when the next "http" comes around, web sites will not be able to change the system default for it. That being said, registering a system-wide URI handler needs admin privileges anyway, right? (at least on Windows). Best regards, Julian
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