Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

FireBeyond wrote: post #5

Seems like a horrible and arbitrary idea. What is it meant to achieve? Send a bitcoin to an address? View a block? HTML5 started off well, but is beginning to morph into a cargo cult of 'cool': the return of mystery navigation, "swipe to navigate", many others.

According to the link in the comment:

"The purpose of this URI scheme is to enable users to easily make payments by simply clicking links on webpages or scanning QR Codes."

Source: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0021

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by unfletch » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 10:35 PM UTC

hippich wrote: post #2

how i can see name of user who committed this?

The name is always "Ian Hickson". He's the only committer on the HTML5 SVN repo:

   $ svn log -q | egrep "^r\d+" | cut -d "|" -f 2 | sort | uniq -c
   7850  ianh

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by Houshalter » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 10:35 PM UTC

What does this mean exactly?

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by bpierre » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 10:35 PM UTC

hippich wrote: post #2

how i can see name of user who committed this?

In the commit-watchers mailing list: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/commit-watchers-whatwg.org...

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by drewblaisdell » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 10:36 PM UTC

FireBeyond wrote: post #5

Seems like a horrible and arbitrary idea. What is it meant to achieve? Send a bitcoin to an address? View a block? HTML5 started off well, but is beginning to morph into a cargo cult of 'cool': the return of mystery navigation, "swipe to navigate", many others.

You have given reasons that support the idea that this is arbitrary, but why is it horrible?