Hi, Thomas Wood wrote: > Others have stated before that the mime type option is really the only > sane one for this sort of thing, rather than the awful localhost URIs > the the JOSM remote control uses presently.
Call me biased but I find a certain elegance in the way these "awful localhost URIs" do not require any configuration. You do not have to register JOSM as an application for a certain MIME type; you do not have to fiddle with your browser configuration to install a helper application; just fire up JOSM and it works. Granted, the localhost URIs fail miserably if you do not have JOSM running already. If it were'nt for the same-origin policy one could at least call them using XMLHttpRequest and present a popup on error... (I'd love to be able to write: "You can carry JOSM with you on an USB stick and run it in an Internet cafe with no privileges on the machine", but unfortunately we still lack a "--my-home-directory-is-on-the-stick" option.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
