- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:23:24 -0700
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>, "Aaron Swartz" <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
- Cc: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@akamai.com>, "RDF Interest" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, <uri@w3.org>
This is also similar to the facility in IE of "pluggable protocol handlers"; for example, if you install Napster on your machine, nap:search?artist=Goodie+Mob&title=Soul+Food becomes a usable URI. In this case the link causes Napster to load with a list of all nearby locations for that song. Sean makes a good point -- it is crass to make a new scheme for something that is already supported by an existing scheme like http:// or news://. For implementing in IE, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/pluggable/overview/overvie w.asp And sample code at http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q260/5/28.ASP -----Original Message----- From: Sean B. Palmer [mailto:sean@mysterylights.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 7:43 PM To: Dan Connolly; Aaron Swartz Cc: Mark Nottingham; RDF Interest; uri@w3.org Subject: Re: URIs / URLs Dan Connolly <mailto:connolly@w3.org> wrote:- > I hear there's something related called protozilla, but I > don't know the details. Protozilla [1] is a plug-in (not strictly... I think they call it a socket adaptor or something) for Netscape6 that allows one to associate certain protocols with a particular action on ones computer: just what you've been looking for, according to:- [[[ The two on my personal to-do list are mid: and irc:. ]]] - http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes More information about Protozilla is available from [1] which I have pointed out numerous times before after being introduced to it by Aaron (who will almost certainly have sent a similar letter to this by the time I'm through writing). Downloads [2] and examples [3] are also available. Protozilla also carries with it certain disadvantages: it makes it way too easy for people to start using URI schemes as redirects, e.g. myscheme:ABC could be used to reference http://www.example.org/example/ABC - I can see some of the Wiki people starting to use wiki: already :-) [1] http://protozilla.mozdev.org/ [2] http://protozilla.mozdev.org/download.html [3] http://protozilla.mozdev.org/examples.html -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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