- From: David Norris <kg9ae@geocities.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:48:04 -0500
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
>That is a very browser-specific method, and URLs should be "handleable" >by other kinds of apps (like Email, Usenet, etc.). The extended mailto This is an important factor to remember. URIs are not specific to HTML or even a web browser. They can be, and are, used anywhere. 32-bit Windows uses URIs everywhere. Large portions of the Win32 OSs are based on URIs. You can enter a URI at a command line and invoke the handler related to that URI-type in Windows. Try bringing up a run dialog and typing http://www.w3.org/ or mailto:someone@somewhere.com You can enter "start http://www.w3.org/" from a command console. URIs are used to store certain information in the system's registry and/or convey that information among applications. classid, mailto, http, mid are only a hint of the URIs used in Win32. You can add a URI handler as easily as a MIME or File type handler in Win32. Even Windows shortcuts can use URIs. I wouldn't discount the idea because some browsers don't support it. If we said that every time something new came up then we would be in terrible shape. I still would like to know which browsers supposedly break on the extended mailto URIs. I haven't found any on Windows that break, so far. I have just about every browser that can run on Windows. ,David Norris World Wide Web - http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1652/ Illusionary Web - http://illusionary.dyn.ml.org/ <-- 02:00 - 10:00 GMT Video/Audio Phone - callto:illusionary.dyn.ml.org Page via mail - 412039@pager.mirabilis.com ICQ Universal Internet Number - 412039 E-Mail - kg9ae@geocities.com
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