http://ajaxian.com/archives/creating-custom-protocol-handlers-with-html-5-and-firefox Cleaning up the web with Ajax Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:51:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://ajaxian.com/archives/creating-custom-protocol-handlers-with-html-5-and-firefox/comment-page-1#comment-269296 Brad Neuberg Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:05:47 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=5125#comment-269296 @Goathi: The idea is to allow web applications to compete with desktop applications. Right now you can register a desktop email application like Outlook, for example, to handle mailto: links; why shouldn't a user be able to do the same but have a web application like Yahoo Mail handle the link? @Goathi: The idea is to allow web applications to compete with desktop applications. Right now you can register a desktop email application like Outlook, for example, to handle mailto: links; why shouldn’t a user be able to do the same but have a web application like Yahoo Mail handle the link?

]]> http://ajaxian.com/archives/creating-custom-protocol-handlers-with-html-5-and-firefox/comment-page-1#comment-269281 TNO Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:04:13 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=5125#comment-269281 It would be a rarely used feature but I do see some utility to it if its a popular site (click here to launch the [insert name] game client) It would be a rarely used feature but I do see some utility to it if its a popular site (click here to launch the [insert name] game client)

]]> http://ajaxian.com/archives/creating-custom-protocol-handlers-with-html-5-and-firefox/comment-page-1#comment-269279 goathi Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:55:48 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=5125#comment-269279 What would be the use for this if firefox is so annoying??? What would be the use for this if firefox is so annoying???

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