- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 13:24:57 +0200
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- CC: WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, 10:37:24 PM, Tim wrote: TB> 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? TB> OK, I was wrong. If you take out itms: and http: at the front you get TB> reams of XML out, see below. Near as I can tell, "itms:" accomplishes TB> dispatching the output to iTunes, which ought to be done with the TB> media-type or namespace or some such. But it's nice that you can safely TB> ignore it. TB> http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?artistTerm=Beck&albumTerm=Sea%20Change I recall seeing a similar 'ical' URI scheme deployed, again to trigger despatching. Are people doing this because of the difficulty of setting media types on the server? -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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