On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:46:51AM +0000, Philip TAYLOR [PC336/H-XP] wrote: | That is, one needs something analogous to fully-IANA- | registered MIME types as a mandatory parameter to | <object ...> to ensure that other optional parameters | are correctly and consistently interpreted. Possibly we should use a Java packages style naming convention, for example ActiveX controls could be specified as: <object classid="com.microsoft/D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" /> Whereas plugins for Acme Co Browser would be specified as: <object classid="uk.co.acme/1234" /> It removes the need for an authority to be set up for registering classids, because the system piggy-backs onto the DNS. As domain name collisions are (theoretically) not going to happen, so there should be no classid collisions. -- Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS E-mail: tobyink@goddamn.co.uk PGP: http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/?id=12 Web Page: http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/ IM: AIM:inka80 ICQ:6622880 YIM:tobyink Jabber:tobyink@a-message.de Awright, which one of you hid my PENIS ENVY?
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