- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:37:24 -0700
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Tim Bray wrote:
> They invented a new URI scheme: itms:..... which, if you have a Mac with
> iTunes 4, pops up iTunes when you click on it. Hmm... I think this is a
> potentially important piece of the infrastructure, does anyone know
> anyone at Apple who might be interested in some dialogue with the world
> as to the pros and cons of this approach?
OK, I was wrong. If you take out itms: and http: at the front you get
reams of XML out, see below. Near as I can tell, "itms:" accomplishes
dispatching the output to iTunes, which ought to be done with the
media-type or namespace or some such. But it's nice that you can safely
ignore it.
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?artistTerm=Beck&albumTerm=Sea%20Change
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Cheers, Tim Bray
(ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
Received on Wednesday, 30 April 2003 16:37:25 UTC