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Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by bpierre »

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.

bitcoin is not the first whitelisted scheme [1], we already have irc, geo, mailto, magnet, mms, news, nntp, sip, sms, smsto, ssh, tel, urn, webcal, xmpp.

[1] http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps/index#whitelisted-scheme

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by notatoad »

msutherl wrote: post #4

Everyone who maintains the HTML5 spec. is named Mike.

it's a diff of an alphabetical list, it's showing a few lines on either side of the name that was added.

So all the HTML5 spec contributors whose names start with the letters "mike" are called Mike.

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by Geee »

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.

Clicking the link just opens the client which handles it any way it wishes. However, the Bitcoin URI scheme is documented pretty well already: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/URI_Scheme

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by justincormack »

drewblaisdell wrote: post #10
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?

Are we going to have to whitelist every currency that will exist in the future? At least have a pay: schema so you do pay:bitcoin.com/... or something.

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by SkyMarshal »

justincormack wrote: post #17
drewblaisdell wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Are we going to have to whitelist every currency that will exist in the future? At least have a pay: schema so you do pay:bitcoin.com/... or something.

Exactly. Needs another layer of abstraction to handle competing crypto currencies. BTC was the first, but won't be the last.

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by nephyrin »

"Added to HTML5" is misleading. More specifically, the bitcoin scheme was added as a valid scheme that websites may register themselves as handlers for via navigator.registerProtocolHandler, a list that already includes mms: xmpp: webcal: tel: and other misc schemes. It doesn't specify any kind of support for the scheme for the browser.

See http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#whitelist...

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by bpierre »

itsybitsycoder wrote: post #12

OK, if I understand correctly this is the WHATWG HTML5, not the W3C HTML5. Are there any browsers actually using WHATWG's spec?

Yes, all of them! :-)

WhatWG HTML is the living standard, and the HTML5 (W3C) spec. is like a snapshot.

http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_HTML5.3F

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