Open URIs A Firefox add-on that loads URIs in links before they fall back to hrefs
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A Firefox add-on that loads URIs in links before they fall back to hrefs URNs were designed to allow references such as links to be made to an item without forcing the author to commit to where that reference was located on the web. It would be up to the user agent to figure out how it should be interpreted. The extension URN Support (mentioned below) offered this ability, but it could only work within the "href" attribute, thus preventing such links from doing anything else if the user's browser did not have the extension installed.Beyond URNs, Firefox allows extensions to define their own protocols and HTML5 is currently working on allowing custom protocols for which websites can define their own handlers. As with URNs, the only problem with people experimenting with these is that there is no fallback behavior (or alternative options) so that for browsers which do not support these (or if the user has not chosen any particular handlers), site authors of course generally do not want a click to be clicked and just do nothing.This extension aims to solve that problem by allowing two additional attributes in HTML links. Using the attribute "uris" will try these space-separated protocols (in order), and only if none of these succeed, will it fall back to the "href" value.Alternatively, or in addition, the attribute "alternateURIs" may be used to indicate a white-space separated list of URIs which can be activated by right-click (and selecting the "Open as..." context menu).The extension allows one to automatically style such elements so that one may be aware such behavior will be possible by right-clicking.Note that although these attributes are not part of any standard, this extension was started at the recommendation of members of the WhatWG HTML5 mailing list in order to gain enough experience with web developers to see how such a standard might be shaped. Requirements: · Firefox 3.6 to 3.6.* What's New in This Release: · Including some default styles for links with attributes URI or alternateURIs.

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