- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:02:58 -0400
- To: bob@sporkmonger.com
- Cc: Kristof Zelechovski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>, uri-review@ietf.org, uri@w3.org
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 21:55 -0400, Bob Aman wrote: > >> I have a problem with this in the general case because I don't think > >> there's currently a way for such a URI to be registered to a specific > >> application in any major browser. > > > > Take a look at greasemonkey: > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 > > Greasemonkey is based on recognizing URI patterns and performing special > > functions when such patterns are recognized. > > I'm familiar with greasemonkey. Last I checked, greasemonkey didn't > launch applications so much as rewrite pages in place, and even if it > could, that's not even remotely user-friendly. Beyond that, it's not > something that really applies outside of the Firefox ecosystem. The > point isn't that it's not technically feasible, the point is that it's > a path that has way more technical and psychological hurdles to > overcome than getting a scheme registered with the IANA. Getting a scheme registered is the *easy* part. The hard part is getting millions of installed clients to implement the special recognition of that scheme. -- David Booth, Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic (contractor) Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Cleveland Clinic.
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