[webkit-dev] Support "registerProtocolHandler" in WebKit2

Wed May 20 23:32:41 PDT 2015

Looks llke nobody objects. Please make sure to #ifdef everything and 
disable the feature on OS X and iOS.

What is your plan for testing?

On 5/19/15 6:31 PM, Gyuyoung Kim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to listen what do you think to support 
> 'registerProtocolHandler' in WebKit2.
>
> This feature is to execute web content through registered custom protocol.
> - For example, web content can register "mailto" custom protocol using 
> this feature,
>     <script>
>         navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto",
>                                           "https://mail.naver.com/",
>                                           "Web Mail");
>     </script>
>
>     <html>
>     <head>
>         <title>Web Protocol Handler Sample - Test</title>
>     </head>
>         <body>
>             <p>Send an email : <a href="mailto://">this !</a></p>
>         </body>
>     </html>
>
> Besides this feature has been supported by Mozilla and Chromium (From 
> Mozilla 3.0, Chromium 13).
>   - 
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/registerProtocolHandler
>   - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web-based_protocol_handlers
>
> The feature is included in the W3C recommendation 28 released on Oct. 
> 2014.
>   - W3C spec : http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/webappapis.html#custom-handlers
>
> IIRC, some WebKit1 ports supported this feature though, those ports 
> were deprecated. Now WebKit port supports this feature no more.
>
> There is a very old bug to support this feature though, it wasn't 
> maintained so far. Recently I updated it based on latest WebKit.
> - https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92749
>
> Feel free to give me any feedback about this feature.
>
> Gyuyoung.
>
>
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