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Bug 21815 - Bitcoin is not generic like mailto. It's a single implementation of cryptographic currency. It seems similar to using outlook: instead of mailto:.
Summary: Bitcoin is not generic like mailto. It's a single implementation of cryptogra...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-04-24 16:05 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-06-05 21:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-04-24 16:05:32 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#custom-handlers
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#custom-handlers
Referrer: 

Comment:
Bitcoin is not generic like mailto. It's a single implementation of
cryptographic currency. It seems similar to using outlook: instead of mailto:.

Posted from: 65.25.253.165
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1485.0 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-04-25 20:26:09 UTC 
mailto: is for SMTP, irc: is for IRC, mms: is for MMS, bitcoin: is for bitcoin... I don't see the problem here.