- From: Reed Wade <wade@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:09:09 -0400
- To: "John C. Daub" <hsoi@tamu.edu>
- Cc: wade@cs.utk.edu, uri@bunyip.com
This is not necessarily a bad idea but I think you'll have a very hard time getting this adopted. And if adopted, implemented by browser writers. I'd suggest trying something a little different. Define a new mime type that's associated with a well formed mud description. For example x-application/mud-info as the mime type for a file that looks like this: host: blah.org port: 8080 description: blah admin-contact: mudguy@blah.org You'd then need some sort of helper application that would read this file and fire off the mud client (or build this functionality into the mud client). One advantage to this is that it could be done without any browser changes. If it becomes popular then browser writers could easily obviate the helper application. Another advantage is that the people who care most about it, the mud community, get to make the important decisions about how it would work. Reed Wade --------- University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dept of Computer Science Netlib Development Group 'Dust--is round off error.' says geek wade@cs.utk.edu -- <URL:http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/ReedWade.html>
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