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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 itsybitsycoder »

bpierre wrote: post #29
itsybitsycoder wrote: post #26

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No, it's not that simple. http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#WHATWG_and_the_W3C_HTML_WG

Yeah, nothing is simple, but it’s still true most of the time. Feel free to explain better :-)

Basically, the WHATWG and W3C specs have diverged and there is no clear plan for them to meet up again. So, just because WHATWTG has added bitcoin links to their HTML5 spec does not mean that W3C will add bitcoin links to theirs. W3C is generally considered the more respected/"official" spec out of the two. (I would not be surprised if most people who've heard of the W3C have not heard of WHATWG.) I know that browser developers care about being W3C-compliant. I'm not sure whether they care about being WHATWG-compliant.

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by bpierre »

itsybitsycoder wrote: post #31
bpierre wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, nothing is simple, but it’s still true most of the time. Feel free to explain better :-)

Basically, the WHATWG and W3C specs have diverged and there is no clear plan for them to meet up again. So, just because WHATWTG has added bitcoin links to their HTML5 spec does not mean that W3C will add bitcoin links to theirs. W3C is generally considered the more respected/"official" spec out of the two. (I would not be surprised if most people who've heard of the W3C have not heard of WHATWG.) I know that browser…

Browser developers care about being “WhatWG compliant”, because the WhatWG HTML group is composed by browser editors, they work with the W3C HTML5 group, and the HTML5 specification is based on the WhatWG’s HTML document.

Read this if you need more clarifications:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/20...

http://blog.whatwg.org/html-is-the-new-html5

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by itsybitsycoder »

bpierre wrote: post #32
itsybitsycoder wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically, the WHATWG and W3C specs have diverged and there is no clear plan for them to meet up again. So, just because WHATWTG has added bitcoin links to their HTML5 spec does not mean that W3C will add bitcoin links to theirs. W3C is generally considered the more respected/"official" spec out of the two. (I would not be surprised if most people who've heard of the W3C have not heard of WHATWG.) I know that browser…

Browser developers care about being “WhatWG compliant”, because the WhatWG HTML group is composed by browser editors, they work with the W3C HTML5 group, and the HTML5 specification is based on the WhatWG’s HTML document. Read this if you need more clarifications: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/20... http://blog.whatwg.org/html-is-the-new-html5

Thanks, this is what I was asking for.

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by FireBeyond »

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

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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.

paypal:// ... googlecheckout:// ... etc://

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by munimkazia »

peterarmstrong wrote: post #35

I would love to see the reaction here if this was paypal: not bitcoin:

Paypal payment is implemented only using paypal website. It is pointless to add it because no website/app can register as a handler for that URL scheme to implement it in any different way. Bitcoin payment is not centralized and processed by one agency.

Re: Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

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Post by munimkazia »

threeseed wrote: post #30
justincormack wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why stop at currencies ? Are we now going to have evernote, dropbox, flickr etc ?

No. Evernote, dropbox and flickr are all services implemented by a single organization each. You could just to use HTTP to link to a flickr profile. Bitcoin is decentralized. It is like a protocol. Each user can have his wallet stored in a different service, or even in his computer. The spec allows a wallet service or an application to add itself as a handler for bitcoin: links. Similar to mailto:, the user can choose the application which can listen to those links. It could be gmail, or thunderbird, or outlook.
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