Proposal: External Protocol Handing (Plugin replacement)

2014-04-01 Thread Konstantin Welke
Hi! As you want to get rid of all plugins (NPAPI), you say: If there are plugin features which are not available in the web platform, we encourage developers to post their use cases to mozilla.dev.platform project list”. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Plugins We have such a feature:

Re: Proposal: External Protocol Handing (Plugin replacement)

2014-04-01 Thread Konstantin Welke
Hi! Well, I think adding an API to query directly whether an application is installed could be a privacy risk. This is why Microsoft added this API to obscure this information to the web page and just call either the success or failure callback. In Citrix, we use this API on IE 11 / Win 8 to