[whatwg] status of html5 Custom scheme and content handlers?

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, brg wrote:
>
> RE: 6.8.2
> status of html5 Custom scheme and content handlers?
> 
> I ask because I am interesting in providing an implementation, and am 
> wondering if it is stable enough to start.  It is currently marked as a 
> Working Draft, although I can not find any discussion since late spring, 
> 2009.

It's been implemented and shipped in Firefox for some time. I don't know 
how stable it is, though. There have been some suggestions that we should 
use a different design altogether, though nobody has really suggested 
anything better yet.

Things get more stable the more implementations we have, though.


> It reads as if the spec is fairly complete to provide an experimental 
> implementation, but perhaps could use a list of forbidden schemes 
> (eg.http, https, file).

I didn't want to give an explicit list, because each browser might have a 
different set of special schemes, and I didn't want to mislead 
implementors into not thinking about this carefully.

HTH,
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