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Edd's grumpy about Apple's use of URI schemes


blech:

Edd's grumpy about Apple's use of URI schemes


posted on 2005/07/14 10:41

 

What, like these examples that I found with RCDefaultApp?


 

acquisitionsearch applescript feedsearch goban graphing-calculator-demo pcast ping qs see sherlock


 

Of course, the way Apple [ab]uses URI schemes was in the news a lot last year, with the help: security vulnerability.


 

For example, here's Daring Fireball on disabling 'help' and 'disk' handlers.


 

I suppose the fact that all these pseudo-protocols only work on Macs (or, occasionally (see: itms) on Windows), but that they're referenced generally, would annoy people.


 

The Launch Services docs seem a bit sparse on that aspect of dapp binding.


jerakeen:

My attitude to this is, it's stupid, but I can't think of anything else that will actually work.


 

Actually, I'm not sure if that chump is a rant against the use of URI schemes, or against the unbounded registrations of new ones with no central authority..


blech:

No, it's not entirely clear. I suspect it is a pop at things like the pcast:// handler.



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