Re: Apple Music Store & Web Architecture

Tim Bray wrote:

> They invented a new URI scheme: itms:..... which, if you have a Mac with 
> iTunes 4, pops up iTunes when you click on it.  Hmm... I think this is a 
> potentially important piece of the infrastructure, does anyone know 
> anyone at Apple who might be interested in some dialogue with the world 
> as to the pros and cons of this approach?

OK, I was wrong.  If you take out itms: and http: at the front you get 
reams of XML out, see below.  Near as I can tell, "itms:" accomplishes 
dispatching the output to iTunes, which ought to be done with the 
media-type or namespace or some such.  But it's nice that you can safely 
ignore it.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?artistTerm=Beck&albumTerm=Sea%20Change


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Cheers, Tim Bray
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