On Tuesday 2018-01-09 08:51 -0800, L. David Baron wrote: > I'm a little hesitant here -- this is an important feature for > allowing Web apps to fulfil the function that desktop apps do, and > I'd rather push to see it expand. > > For example, if we added support for registering for text/calendar, > then Google Calendar could choose to register for that, and thus > become the handler for random ICS files that I'm served by sites > that allow me to make appointments. > > Right now desktop calendar apps have more power than web calendar > apps do here, for no good reason, and it seems like we ought to be > trying to change that.
Though given Anne's point about wanting an API that doesn't do two loads of the content, I guess removal is probably the right thing. But it would really be good to work on standardizing something better here. -David -- š¯„˛ L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ š¯„‚ š¯„¢ Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ š¯„‚ Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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