- From: Delfi Ramirez <delfin@segonquart.net>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:03:57 +0200
- To: David Kendal <me@dpk.io>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org, Domenic Denicola <d@domenic.me>
David: Agreed. Shall we start to think on the native modern browsers, desktops ( which are integrated with the DOM, as much as I have perceived ) TouchScreen, connected to the web, and ASF or other networks (IoT comes to mind) ? A modern DOM update version of the known trick [autorun] shellexecute=path\to\htmlfile.html will be of use. Kind regards --- Delfi Ramirez -- At Work My digital signature [1] 0034 633 589231 delfin@segonquart.net [2] twitter: @delfinramirez [3] IRC: segonquart Skype: segonquart [4] http://segonquart.net http://delfiramirez.info [5] On 2017-04-11 18:46, David Kendal wrote: > On 11 Apr 2017, at 17:01, Domenic Denicola <d@domenic.me> wrote: > >> Bingo. This mailing list is for developing technology for the world >> wide web, not for peoples' local computers. > > The World Wide Web includes peoples' own computers. file:// is a URI > scheme for exactly that reason. Every browser since WorldWideWeb.app > for the NeXT has supported it, and every browser will support it > forever, I hope. (Until it gets the <ISINDEX> treatment, I suppose, > since the current generation of web standards writers seem to regard > the idea of platform stability with extreme contempt.) > > You cannot escape this simply by redefining what you consider 'the web' > to be. > > (file:// is even 'world wide', to some extent. On computers with AFS > installed, all URIs beginning with file:///afs/ will always resolve to > the exact same files.) > > -- > dpk (David P. Kendal) · Nassauische Str. 36, 10717 DE · http://dpk.io/ > If one meets a powerful person [...] one can ask five questions: what > power do you have; where did you get it; in whose interests do you > exercise it; to whom are you accountable; and, how can we get rid of > you? Anyone who cannot answer the last of those questions does not > live in a democratic system. -- Tony Benn, Commons deb., 16 Nov. 1998 Links: ------ [1] http://delfiramirez.info/public/dr_public_key.asc [2] mail:%20delfin@segonquart.net [3] https://twitter.com/delfinramirez [4] skype:segonquart [5] http://delfiramirez.info
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