288416 - support URNs, urn:isbn in particular

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 269917

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Henry Story]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

I would like links with <a href="urn:isbn:0-470-09148-7">Service Oriented
Computing</a> to give me a choice of services to use to locate that book.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a web page with a link with a urn:isbn anchor href
2. open that web page
3. Click on that link
Actual Results:  
The browser says that it does not know of the urn protocol.

Expected Results:  
I should get a pop up menu of choices to help me choose which service (amazon,
ebay, library of congress, google,) I want to use to locate that book.

I have blogged about this here:
http://bblfish.net/blog/page6.html#49

Comment 1

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 175074 ***

Comment 2

[Henry Story]

No this is not a duplicate of 175074. That bug is a bug report, this is a
feature request. 

That bug showned that clicking on urn:isbn converted it to urn://isbn which is
wrong. 

This feature request asks that the browser acts on the semantics of urn:isbn
URIs in particular, but others would also be welcome. The Firefox preferences
should have an extra panel that allows the user to specify perhaps a regexp to
convert a urn:isbn uri into a http url. 

The "a" anchor tag should be enhanced to recognise urn:isbn uris and open a
small well designed and unobstrusive combo boxes when the mouse hovers over the
link (I am not a UI expert and there may be better ways of doing this), giving
the user the choice of which service to user (amazon, the library of congress,
...) to use to locate the book.

I have examples on my blog cited above.

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 269917 ***