User:Dmose:Fx-Docs:WebServicesAsMimeHandlers

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Status

Feature tracking bug

registerContentHandler is already implemented for RSS only. We need to make it not drop other MIME types on the floor, and then implement registerProtocolHandler.

Overview

Allow Firefox to hand-off content to web-based services in addition to local applications.

Motivation

More and more people are using web-based services as their primary way to handle specific types of content. Web-based calendaring and addressbook apps are good examples of this.

Use Cases

  • dynamic handoff
    • e.g. subscribe to an ICS URL in a web calendar
  • static handoff
    • insert the event in an ICS file generated by evite into a web calendar
    • allow a website to render an Excel spreadsheet into HTML
    • handle mailto: URLs in webmail
  • (...)

Requirements

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Schedule

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Design & Implementation

Documentation
Repository
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API Changes

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Extensibility

list work done to make feature extensible by add-ons & any impact to extensibility of Firefox

Customization

There are currently both Content and Feeds panes in the Firefox preferences. From a design standpoint, this is (to a large degree) a generalization of the currently-Feed-specific pane. Figuring out how to make this both simple and general is probably some work.

Performance

list effects on performance, tests used, metrics targeted

Reliability/Stability

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Security

We'll need a security review for sure. The WHATWG HTML5 spec discusses some of the stuff we'll need to think about here.

Privacy

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Global Audience

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Web Compatibility

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Other

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Discussion & Implications

Caveats / What We've Tried Before

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References

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