- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:49:42 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, brg wrote: > > RE: 6.8.2 > status of html5 Custom scheme and content handlers? > > I ask because I am interesting in providing an implementation, and am > wondering if it is stable enough to start. It is currently marked as a > Working Draft, although I can not find any discussion since late spring, > 2009. It's been implemented and shipped in Firefox for some time. I don't know how stable it is, though. There have been some suggestions that we should use a different design altogether, though nobody has really suggested anything better yet. Things get more stable the more implementations we have, though. > It reads as if the spec is fairly complete to provide an experimental > implementation, but perhaps could use a list of forbidden schemes > (eg.http, https, file). I didn't want to give an explicit list, because each browser might have a different set of special schemes, and I didn't want to mislead implementors into not thinking about this carefully. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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