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Alternatives
============
-* manual copy&paste of ``taler://`` URIs :-)
-* integration of GNU Taler into all major browsers :-)
-* convincing Google and/or Mozilla to provide better support
+* Manual copy&paste of ``taler://`` URIs :-)
+* Integration of GNU Taler into all major browsers :-)
+* Convincing Google and/or Mozilla to provide better support
for reacting to a limited subset of request headers in
a declarative way
-* convince Google and/or Mozilla to implement a general mechanism
+* Convince Google and/or Mozilla to implement a general mechanism
where extensions can offer a "service" that websites can then
connect to without knowing some particular extension ID.
-* convince Google and/or Mozilla to add better support for
- registering URI schemes from a WebExtension
+* Convince Google and/or Mozilla to add better support for
+ registering URI schemes from a WebExtension, so that
+ we can register a handler for ``taler://``. For a better user experience,
+ there should also be some way to check whether some particular URI scheme
+ has a handler.
Drawbacks
=========