Tristan Miller Reporter
	Description • 19 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

This is a request for a user to be able to access information on periodicals
referenced by `href' or `cite' attributes with values of an ISSN URN in (X)HTML
documents.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1a. Click on a hyperlink of the form urn:issn:*, or
1b. Right-click on an element that has a cite attribute with content of the form
urn:issn:* and select "Properties".
Actual Results:  
1a. A dialog appears stating that "URN is not a registered protocol", or
1b. A dialog appears but the URN isn't displayed correctly (Bug 175074) and
isn't a hyperlink.

Expected Results:  
A user should be able to click on an ISSN hyperlink on a page (or click on an
ISSN hyperlink within the element properties dialog on some text on a page
quoted from a periodical) and be taken to an online periodical database (or
library or bookstore or whatnot) of their choice (set through a pref) or offered
a browser-generated list of links to databases, libraries, and stores.  A system
should also be set up so that extensions (e.g., Mozilla Amazon Browser) or
external applications (e.g., library catalogue software) can potentially be
called when a ISSN link is encountered.

	Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]
	Comment 1 • 9 years ago

addon