Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.launchURL

Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, 2014-07-13 22:30 -0700:

> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> wrote:
[...]
> > It proposed a method that includes a "successCallback" & "noHandlerCallback":
> >
> >   navigator.launchUri(uri, successCallback, noHandlerCallback)
> 
> No, I missed that.  Looks very similar.  A more modern idiom would be
> to return a promise to inform the caller of success or failure.

Yeah

> Is there a use case for reporting success or failure?  I thought about
> including that, but it wasn't necessary for the use cases I'm aware
> of.

Konstantin mentioned:

> > We would like to have a stable, well-defined API for this that also allows
> > to handle the “user declined / protocol handler is not installed” case
> > gracefully. As an example, the web page could show a UI to tell the user
> > how to install an SSH client.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2014JanMar/0797.html

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Received on Monday, 14 July 2014 05:40:57 UTC