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Re:Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5 by nephyrin on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @06:53PM (#5598497)
"Added to HTML5" is misleading. More specifically, the bitcoin scheme was added as a valid scheme that websites may register themselves as handlers for via navigator.registerProtocolHandler, a list that already includes mms: xmpp: webcal: tel: and other misc schemes. It doesn't specify any kind of support for the scheme for the browser.

See http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#whitelist...

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Re:Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5 by bpierre on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @07:11PM (#5598576)
Yes, I didn’t know how to be more precise while being concise. I replaced the word “added” with “whitelisted”, thanks.
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Re:Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5 by dubcanada on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @07:29PM (#5598654)
It should also be made clear that being whitelisted is different from being implemented.
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