Re: [art] URI content hints

(cross-posting because it seems relevant here too?)

On Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 17:53 Soni L. <fakedme+art@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 3/9/23 17:17, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> > "Soni L." <fakedme+art@gmail.com> writes:
> >>> feature.  But looking at this documentation for the A element
> >>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a, it lists
> a
> >>> "type" attribute for "Hints at the linked URL's format with a MIME
> >>> type. No built-in functionality."  Perhaps this could be made
> functional
> >>> in a practical way?
> >>
> >> Sure. Sadly those don't work over e.g. IRC, so you can't tell someone's
> >> IRC client "this is likely a feed, open it in a feed reader if you have
> >> any".
> >
> > Can you clarify exactly what you're looking for?  It seems that you want
> > not only a hint, but to have the hint integrated into the URI in some
> > way.  That could be messy, as there's no guarantee that any arbitrary
> > URI leads to any sort of "content negotiation" process ... The only
> > content negotiation I know of is in HTTP and SIP, which are restricted
> > to http:, https:, sip:, and sips: URIs.  A few concrete examples would
> > help as well.
>
> Hmm, if only HTTP is particularly relevant here then (SIP doesn't seem
> to be of significant relevance, doubt anyone's running RSS or Atom feeds
> over that), we guess we could have something like
> cehttps://domain.example/path/?application/atom+xml or
> cehttps://domain.example/path/?application/atom+xml?page=2 then? A
> "content-enabled" web browser would use these to steer content
> negotiation and then open them in an appropriate app.
>
> Back in the IE6 days you could do this with ActiveX. But that led to 2MB
> Accept headers and it basically never did what the user wanted anyway.
> Consider this a privacy-preserving variation of that idea.
>
> >
> > Dale
> >
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