- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:39:13 +0100
- To: Graham Klyne <GK-lists@ninebynine.org>
- CC: David Recordon <davidrecordon@facebook.com>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, uri@w3.org
On 17.02.2010 00:24, Graham Klyne wrote: > >>> Long story short, we (certainly I, anyway) have no intentions to > make "fb" a >>> real URL scheme. It just arose out of convenience. > > Hmmm... so what happens to Facebook's iPhone app when someone validly > registers and deploys (widely) a URI scheme called 'fb:'? > > I would hazard a suggestion that at least a provisional registration > might be in order (noting its limited use) to help avoid such a thing > from happening without anyone noticing. > ... The problem is much bigger, as far as I recall, minting new URI schemes for invoking iphone applications is even recommended by the SDK, so there are probably many more. See discussion around <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008Oct/0002.html>. Best regards, Julian
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