- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:43:47 -0500
- To: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Cc: "\"Martin J." Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Jonathan A Rees <rees@mumble.net>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 22:10 -0500, Noah Mendelsohn wrote: > . . . Let's say I author a > Web page, and to make it easy for you to email me, I include a link to > mailto:nrm@arcanedomain.com. You read my page, and click on the link, and > you've explained why as a (hypothetical) Webmail user you'd want your new, > smart HTML5 Web browser to invoke the Webmail Web app to compose the > e-mail. And that could be easily done by providing a browser configuration option to tell it to use web mail at a particular URI instead of some non-web-based email client, without any need for a new URI scheme. Similarly, if a user wants to have a particular web site handle a particular kind of content for them, that could also be a browser option, just as browser plugins are already configured to handle particular kinds of content. Again, I don't see any need for a new URI scheme for this. Is there more rationale for this that I missed? -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.
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