On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@smedbergs.us>
> wrote:
> > I don't understand why it matters. chrome: and resource: are both
> > gecko-specific extensions and we have no desire to standardize them.
> > Chromium uses a different scheme for their chrome: protocol.
>
> Because doing so would be a violation of the standard. It's pretty
> clear on what the results must be for any given input. Having
> differences for some unknown-in-advance schemes would be bad.
>
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Presumably we could have a blacklist of the handful of protocols that are
internal to browsers and have compat issues.  "It violates the standard"
isn't a very compelling argument when the standard is in the process of
being written and nobody implements it.

- Kyle
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