269890 - URN Support

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Tracking, enhancement)

Description

[Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

This a request for URN <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2141.txt> support and a
meta-bug for request for particular URN schemes
<http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces>.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley]

To clarify, this is a general meta-bug as opposed to one for specific back-end
support for the URN URI scheme--there may need to be a seperate bug for that.

Comment 2

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

Yeah, general URN support would be quite important. At the moment, it's quite easy to add new URI scheme and protocol handlers to Firefox (which is often a "don't do" in the official guidelines of the w3c) but, in the absence of a base URN scheme handler, it's essentially impossible to add new URN namespaces without being sure that they will eventually conflict.

Comment 3

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

I wish to add that this is a big problem for OpenBerg Lector. At the moment, we're using a "library" scheme, but, well, by doing so, we're going against the W3C's recommendations. So we feel bad about it.