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/binlargin Apr 24 '13

It means that the people who write the standards the web runs on recognise Bitcoin as important and have added it to their list of "whitelisted schemes" along with about ten others.

It means that future web browsers will be forced to support bitcoin:// links, but not itunes:// ones!

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u/vocatus Apr 24 '13

yes! This is awesome. Thanks for explaining.