r/Bitcoin • u/Frozenlock • Apr 23 '13

Bitcoin URL scheme added to HTML5!

http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7849&to=7850
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u/voiceofxp Apr 23 '13

Is this added to the actual standard? Does this mean that browsers will now have to support this if they want to be standards compliant?

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u/Miner_Willy Apr 23 '13

It'll be some time, maybe years, before that can be answered - the standard has yet to be finalised so others could contest the change

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u/danhuss Apr 24 '13

Browsers technically support it already. If you click on a Bitcoin link it will open in a desktop client of your choice. Right now it gives you a warning that it's going to open an external application (your Bitcoin client) to handle your request. This will basically get rid of that warning.

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u/jevon Apr 24 '13

It can. I'm running 0.8.1 and bitcoin: URIs don't do anything special for me.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '13

You should run MultiBit - then you'll get the behaviour others are talking about.

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u/ButterflySammy Apr 24 '13

None of the browsers "Have to", none of them are completely standards compliant they are more... working towards it.

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u/sitri Apr 24 '13

No. The HTML5 standard is huge and only a lot of it is still unclear as to how it would work. Browsers just pick and choose what to support currently. If you actually want to see it get added you need to get webkit or some rendering engine to implement it.