[whatwg] Proposal to extend registerProtocolHandler

Michael Davidson mpd at google.com
Fri Jul 1 15:08:08 PDT 2011


On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:

> I'm not sure what the privacy issue here is given that we restrict to
> same-domain. You're already using the site, so it's just whether they can
> tell that you use them as a protocol handler. I don't see a problem with
> exposing that.
>

FWIW, notifications already exposes this:

http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications/publish/FeaturePermissions.html

Seems best just to crib what they already did.

Michael


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>> Safer option would be if registeredState() would just return
>> "ASKED" or "NOTASKED"
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>> -Olli
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