- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:42:49 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Adam Barth wrote:
>
> == Use Case ==
>
> A web site wants to launch an external protocol handler. For example,
> a web site might want to launch PuTTY via the "ssh" scheme.
window.open('ssh://...');
I'll look at this in more detail in due course, but FWIW this appears to
be more or less identical to a proposal from Microsoft about 18 months
ago:
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20799
It's still not really clear what difference this API would have to
window.open(), though.
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