- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:56:14 +0200
- To: Rodrigo Polo <rodrigo.polo@gmail.com>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
On 2013-06-05 00:25, Rodrigo Polo wrote: > I really don't want to fight over any issue, I, as a user, want to share > with you the current state on this topic and (as I said on the letter) with > "a friendly open letter in the pursuit to make a polite request to make the > life of millions easier" give you some of the reasons why I think it should > be implemented ASAP. > > I already checked this proposed specs: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5870 > http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xml > http://www.w3.org/wiki/UriSchemes > > But my experience waiting for many browsers implementations tell me the > process is slow and it looks like it works by the interest of each brand, I > really feel sorry for the "Web SQL Database" spec that was later removed, I > really hope the "geo" URI scheme could be implemented. > > I know the "registerProtocolHandler" but it doesn't work exactly as > proposed, "geo" "protocol" isn't accepted on Chrome, only "protocols" with > the "web-" prefix and the URL parameter have to match the webpage that make > the request, it is designed for websites, not for local apps, all this > conclusions made by the tests I have done with the latest beta of Chrome > and FireFox: > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/navigator.registerProtocolHandler > http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/02/Getting-Gmail-to-handle-all-mailto-links-with-registerProtocolHandler > > Again, thanks for your attention and help. > ... Not sure what kind of browser support you are looking for. If you want to "geo" URIs to invoke a local mapping application, all you need is to install an URI handler fort that scheme and that application in the *operating system*. This is how things like mailto: have been working for two decades now. Best regards, Julian
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