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Title: Bitcoin "mailto" equivalent.... payto? Post by: Alex Beckenham on March 29, 2011, 01:52:23 PM Sorry, I'm relatively new and excited, and the ideas are flowing... :D
I was thinking about how a lot of people have their bitcoin address posted on the web as a piece of text and it made me think of the "mailto" links that are available in HTML. Code: <a href="mailto:bob@hotmail.com?subject=hello">Email me!</a> Imagine if we could get Chrome (go Google!) or other browsers to accept the following as a valid link and launch your bitcoin client: Code: <a href="payto:12HbhjqzxNNLjTVbEPkhzcPHLzXdN9sD8b?amount=0.01">Pay me!</a> (Then of course you should hit a confirm button once your client presents the send window). What would be involved in making this happen? Title: Re: Bitcoin "mailto" equivalent.... payto? Post by: Stefan Thomas on March 29, 2011, 02:48:10 PM As much as I like the name "payto:" I think "bitcoin:" makes more sense. Plus it's pretty much standardized at this point, see URI Scheme (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/URI_Scheme) on the wiki.
Title: Re: Bitcoin "mailto" equivalent.... payto? Post by: Alex Beckenham on March 29, 2011, 02:53:12 PM As much as I like the name "payto:" I think "bitcoin:" makes more sense. Plus it's pretty much standardized at this point, see URI Scheme (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/URI_Scheme) on the wiki. Oh cool thanks, hadn't seen that page before. Glad to see it's been thought of anyway. Title: Re: Bitcoin "mailto" equivalent.... payto? Post by: Gavin Andresen on March 29, 2011, 04:17:38 PM Feature request is here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues#issue/14
Title: Re: Bitcoin "mailto" equivalent.... payto? Post by: Luke-Jr on March 30, 2011, 07:15:20 PM Feature request is here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues#issue/14 Not sure it makes sense for the wx client to be holding back intentionally. bitcoin URIs are already supported by at least 2 other user interfaces.Title: Re: Bitcoin "mailto" equivalent.... payto? Post by: Matt Corallo on March 30, 2011, 07:26:34 PM Feature request is here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues#issue/14 Not sure it makes sense for the wx client to be holding back intentionally. bitcoin URIs are already supported by at least 2 other user interfaces. |