Hi,

I'm looking to disable/remove the methods exposed on Navigator for registering the protocol handler and content handler (HTML5 spec is here).
It was implemented a while ago, unfortunately neither Chrome nor Safari don't actually implement these. So they are exposed to JS and do nothing when called. There is some level of checks for parameter values but past those checks there is no implementation for Chrome. I've tested Safari 5 and it does not implement it. FF has the implementation since v3 I believe.

It is not optimal to expose the methods but dont't have actual implementation (it screws up the feature detection), so I'm thinking about either removing those altogether (until the time someone wants to implement them for real, they are easy to add back) or adding a pair of #ifdefs around each of those methods. I'd lean to the removal, unless there is a port that has work ongoing or planned soon for those implementations.

Does anybody vote for #ifdefs?

Thanks,
Dmitry



These are the methods in question:

Navigator.idl

interface [
    ] Navigator {

    ....

        void registerProtocolHandler(in DOMString scheme, in DOMString url, in DOMString title)
            raises(DomException);
     
        void registerContentHandler(in DOMString mimeType, in DOMString url, in DOMString title)
            raises(DomException);
    };