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Bug 15627 - Xmpp missing from whitelist of URI schemes
Summary: Xmpp missing from whitelist of URI schemes
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2012-01-19 14:54 UTC by Christopher Ferris
Modified: 2012-02-08 00:28 UTC (History)
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Description Christopher Ferris 2012-01-19 14:54:51 UTC 
Xmpp is missing from the whitelist of  URI schemes in section 6.5.1.2  http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#custom-handlers? Yet, it is an established protocol for which there are web apps such as Meebo.
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-02-08 00:27:18 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 2 contributor 2012-02-08 00:28:43 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6978.
Check-in comment: Allow xmpp: to be used with registerProtocolHandler.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6977&to=6978