Re: HTML5 proposes introduction of new family of URI schemes

On 2012-01-19 17:41, Robin Berjon wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2012, at 17:09 , Eric J. Bowman wrote:
>> This is the first I'm hearing of this, and I'm tired of being
>> blindsided by greenfield protocol-layer solutions to problems I never
>> knew we had, arising from standardization work on a markup language...
>
> How is the web platform expected to be viable if it cannot perform some tasks that are trivial for installed applications? In what way is this API a protocol-layer solution?

I'm pretty sure that registering an URI scheme on Windows requires admin 
privileges...

 > ...

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:50:26 UTC