- From: Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 12:08:49 -0400
- To: "Rodrigo Polo" <rodrigo.polo@gmail.com>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Just to clarify: Are you requesting to have the "geo" protocol be handled by the browser itself, without requiring users to install additional software, and without requiring websites to register the protocol in advance? I assume by "out of the box" you mean that as soon as you install the browser and type a "geo" URL the browser will handle the "geo" protocol itself, perhaps by displaying a browser-specific Web page for that "geo" URL. Am I right? I have no opinion on whether your proposal is good or not. --Peter -----Original Message----- From: Rodrigo Polo Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 8:00 AM To: Julian Reschke Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org ; Glenn Maynard ; Nils Dagsson Moskopp Subject: Re: [whatwg] Request: Implementing a Geo Location URI Scheme You are completely right, but in the tests I made on Chrome the "geo" URI handler can't be used with the "registerProtocolHandler" call, it throws a security error and the use of geo location URI it is not included as a "recommendation" or "good practice" when we talk about the markup, so it is not a technical thing, it is more an idea that could be included in further discussions between web browsers developers, map app developers and the users so everyone adopt the idea of having the geo URI scheme adopted as an standard, I'm quite sure this idea can help a lot of users and web developers to give a better user experience and it is more important that many other things, it will make the life of users a lot easier.
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