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This used to be something one could sketch up in a couple hours on the web, with registerContentHandler.

Removed in 2018. I don't totally disagree with the reasoning, but when the web kills amazing flexibility points for lack of heavy adoption it makes me sad. There's so many good ideas that should be left in, even though society isn't actually so bloody awesome as it should be. https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.platform/c/jeTDLz38_...

Also, scoffing at 0.2% of users of a web browser is multiple orders of magnitude away from where the line should be; these people are a fucking joke & shame the fuck on them, losers. Jonathan Kingston, what the heck dude? What the frelling heck?

Also no other browsers implemented it! Adoption needed help! Not to be murdered.

Tl;Dr, adding new content types used to be easy & simple & you could register a site as a content handler but they always kept the feature locked down then killed it without ever letting people go for it at all. Gatekept.



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