- From: Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:33:50 -0500
- To: "Daniel R. Tobias" <dan@tobias.name>, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Hi Dan, You're right - 'fb:' is NOT registered and due to the syntax (invalid authority) COULD NOT be registered with IANA. Cheers, - Ira Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect) Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG Co-Chair - TCG Hardcopy WG IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB Blue Roof Music/High North Inc email: blueroofmusic@gmail.com winter: 579 Park Place Saline, MI 48176 734-944-0094 summer: PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839 906-494-2434 On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Daniel R. Tobias <dan@tobias.name> wrote: > I just noticed that the iPhone Facebook app, when you enable its > recently-added feature to sync your Facebook friends with your iPhone > contacts, inserts URIs for each person of the form: > > fb://profile/771025267 > > When you click on such a URI from the iPhone contact section, it > brings up the person's Facebook info via the Facebook app. > > I presume this is a nonstandard, unregistered URI scheme; has any > attempt been made to register it? > > It also appears to abuse the double slash, since what follows doesn't > seem to be any sort of "authority". > > When the contacts are further synced to other programs and systems (I > have mine automatically syncing in quite a few directions to various > things both on my PC and on the net), you end up with nonfunctional > links in most of the places, as no programs that I know of outside > the iPhone support this scheme; the "use HTTP for everything" crowd > sometimes has a point. > > > -- > == Dan == > Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ > Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ > Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ > > > > > > >
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