226922 - Auto-Extensible XPointer

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: XML, enhancement)

Description

[Marco Giovannini]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1
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Currently, the implementation of a new XPointer scheme can be achieved only by
developing a new C++ component in the core of Mozilla: it should be an
interesting feature to define a way to "force" Mozilla go finding the
implementation of a scheme it doesn't know about.

These implementations should be written in JavaScript and could be hosted on a
specific site (maybe if many of you think that this idea can be useful, we can
propose to the W3C to manage them).

It would be useful for Mozilla, because it should be simpler to develop a new
schema in JS (even thought new IDL interfaces would be probably necessary): and
 it would be useful for the web-developers, that can in this way define new
schemas without ask someone in Mozilla to implement them: it would be useful to
users, that could in this way enjoy a better navigation on the internet of the
future.

There could be some security issues to consider, though.. but not so much, I
believe.

As I said, it could even become a web standard if you people think it's a good
idea, like I obviously do, and propose it to the W3C.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Marco Giovannini]

Probably the creation of some new IDL interfaces and the modification of the
nsXPointer component to access some specific javascript files, when it doesn't
find the evaluator for a particular scheme, would be the same but easier.

Anyone could then create scheme evaluators simply by creating one of these file
with the code necessary for the setup of the evaluator and for its invocation.

Comment 2

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

You can write XPCOM components in other languages besides C++. You can use
JavaScript, for example.

I don't think I completely follow your proposal. If your proposal is a way to
find a scheme implementation, wouldn't it still be necessary to download and
install the extension? For security reasons it wouldn't be advisable to download
a bunch of JS from a third party site into the current document that is using an
XPointer.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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