259742 - Add support for viewing Texinfo files

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[Tristan Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804

Texinfo is a GNU hypertext documentation format distinct from HTML.  It would be
useful if Mozilla could render Texinfo pages on the fly.  This functionality is
found in other browsers such as Konqueror, which also supports the nonstandard
URI syntax <info:/foo> to bring up the Texinfo page for "foo".

Perhaps the easiest way this feature could be implemented would be to filter the
requested Texinfo file through a Texinfo to HTML converter, such as texi2html or
GNU's makeinfo --html.  Both of these programs are released under Free Software
licences and could probably be incorporated into Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is identical to bug 259745 in concept.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Tristan Miller]

Feature request still pending in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919.

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

==> networking

Comment 5

[Jason Duell]

An extension is the right way for this I think.  Or we'd welcome a patch maybe.  But we don't have time in-house for this any time soon.