Bitcoin and HTML5

[bitteriest]

http://qz.com/78014/bitcoin-is-now-part-of-the-web-sort-of/

Good news !

[tysat]

Edited the topic on the OP to be something meaningful.

[freequant]

virtual currency bitcoin has now passed the first round of approval required to become a standard for the web

How can Bitcoin become a standard, it doesn't even have a specification...

[Mcoroklo]

It's also way to early to implement it in a HTML standard yet. However, I do think it's possible when we reach a high percentage of the Internet trade.

I guess it should be quite simple to implement an input tag like these: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_form_input_types.asp . No doubt in my mind that the wallets should be stored in the browsers in the future anyway, so it would be very obvious (I would love to see Microsoft taking percentages of every transaction ;-) ).

[Maged]

Since a lot of people are confused, let me clarify what this change does. Currently, when you click on a bitcoin: URI like this, your browser will open the client on your computer that is registered to the protocol. However, for security reasons, browsers won't let you register that protocol to a web-based client like blockchain.info because many protocols were made for a single application that resides on your computer, not as something that a webapp can also handle. Because protocols like "mailto:" are designed to be used by all kinds of applications, both on your computer and on the web, it is "whitelisted" so that a website can register itself as what should open when you click on the link. With this change, clicking a bitcoin: URI can be set up to load up blockchain.info's wallet, for example.

[igba]

nice