CIRC should register to handle irc:// URLs

[RByers]

Click on an irc:// URL (eg. see some here http://www.webkit.org/contact.html). CIRC should have a way to hook these.

[noahsug]

I haven't been able to find any information on how to do this. Do you have any links that might help?

[flackr]

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2011/06/Registering-a-custom-protocol-handler

[noahsug]

Awesome, thanks!

registerProtocolHandler takes 3 arguements: protocol, uri and title. Can this be used with native apps? What is the URI of a native app?

[noahsug]

This can't be implemented until https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=161054 is fixed

[RByers]

I also filed https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=163900 to track this specific scenario (it's conceivable it would be fixed, before the more general and harder problem in issue 161054 is addressed).

[RByers]

Whoops, didn't mean to close

[dgl]

I wonder if a context menu item could be added to irc:// URLs via http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/contextMenus.html as a temporary hack until apps can be protocol handlers.

[lyramsr]

This would be awesome. I hope it will be implemented.

[tnarik]

+1

[rdeforest]

+1