Re: javascript URI scheme not registered - spec seems to be missing

Hello Graham,

I noticed there was one URI scheme missing from that list of known URI schemes.

In the old Netscape Navigator web browsers, there was something like a
WYSIWYG URI scheme.  (Although I think it wasn't exactly "WYSIWYG"...
but had one of the letters different.)

I remember it coming up every now about then when you were just going
about normal web browsing.  (Back then I thought it was some kind of
bug that made it show up.)

Not sure if anyone else remembers this.

On 9/4/06, Graham Klyne <GK <at> ninebynine.org> wrote:
> Digging around a question recently posed to me reveals that the commonly-used
> (pseudo-)URI scheme 'javascript:' is not registered [1], and I also note that
> the specification [3] noted by one web site [2] is no longer available.
>
> BTW, the web page [4] ("What schemes are out there?") might be a useful resource
> in considering what schemes might be candidates for provisional registration
> (possibly with health warnings) if they're not already registered.
>
> #g
> --
>
> [1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.html
>
> [2] http://esw.w3.org/topic/UriSchemes/javascript
>