302951 - Support for NBN URN Scheme (RFC3188)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[Tristan Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

This is a request for a user to be able to access documents referenced by `href'
or `cite' attributes with values of an NBN URN in (X)HTML documents.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1a. Click on a hyperlink of the form urn:nbn:*, or
1b. Right-click on an element that has a cite attribute with content of the form
urn:nbn:* and select "Properties".
Actual Results:  
1a. A dialog appears stating that "URN is not a registered protocol", or
1b. A dialog appears but the URN isn't displayed correctly (Bug 175074) and
isn't a hyperlink.

Expected Results:  
A user should be able to click on an NBN hyperlink on a page (or click on an NBN
hyperlink within the element properties dialog on some text on a page quoted
from a periodical) and be taken to an online library catalogue (or bookstore or
other database) of their choice (set through a pref) or offered a
browser-generated list of links to databases, libraries, and stores.  A system
should also be set up so that extensions (e.g., Mozilla Amazon Browser) or
external applications (e.g., library catalogue software) can potentially be
called when a NBN link is encountered.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to bug 37637 comment 7?

Comment 2

[Tristan Miller]

Yep, pretty much the same as Bug 37637 Comment 7.  But note at that bug, they
suggest creating separate bug reports for URNs, hence Bug 302951, Bug 269917,
Bug 302950, and Bug 302947.

Comment 3

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

addon