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List:       webkit-dev
Subject:    Re: [webkit-dev] Support "registerProtocolHandler" in WebKit2
From:       Frédéric Wang <fwang () igalia ! com>
Date:       2020-04-20 10:27:21
Message-ID: 485bf440-cd4d-2629-53a7-0394204f9ea3 () igalia ! com
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Hi,

I'm just bumping this old thread, not because I plan to implement it but
because I was mentioning it on slack the other day and realized not
everybody is #standards:

https://webkit.slack.com/archives/CTY7Z24RZ/p1587142539064000

In particular, my question was related to safelist VS blocklist
discussion from https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3998

From the slack replies as well as
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2019-November/030967.html
it seems a complete switch to blocklist is not the option preferred for
WebKit (if we ever decide to implement this API) so that's what I
commented on the spec / blink-dev discussions.

-- 
Frédéric Wang


On 04/07/2015 19:24, Sam Weinig wrote:
> (Sorry, had this sitting in my drafts).
> 
> My concern with the registerProtocolHandler() API is that it complicates an already \
> the very complicated area of custom protocols and a good implementation requires \
> configuration UI (to choose which of potentially multiple apps/websites you want a \
> specific protocol to go to) that I am not sure users are in the position make.   
> That, coupled with the small existing usage on the web and very few (if any) \
> reports from developers that they want this, leads me to think it isn't a good API \
> for us to support. 
> From an implementation perspective I also have concerns.  How is this should the \
> registration data be managed? Can it fit in the WebSiteData model we are using for \
> other data? Does it account for non-persistent sessions?  And lastly, can we get \
> the code size of supporting a feature like this to be smaller?    
> - Sam
> 
> > On Jun 7, 2015, at 5:39 PM, Darin Adler <darin@apple.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Are we making progress in this discussion?
> > 
> > Maciej stated that he thinks this is useful for mailto and I think that Gyuyoung \
> > Kim and Michael Catanzaro stated that they want to do this. 
> > As one next step in the discussion, is there anyone that wants to present a use \
> > case for a protocol other than mailto? 
> > Sam, Anders, you haven't replied to the thread since Maciej made his remarks two \
> > weeks ago. He asked what you dislike about the API. 
> > — Darin
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