Media/Device Type Spec???

[Dave Cridland]

On Fri Aug 20 09:24:33 2004, Lars Hallberg wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 13:07, Waldo Bastian wrote:
>>  
>>> We don't have a good solution for the "http-URI is actually 
>>> subversion" problem. For WebDAV we have created a separate 
>>> webdav-URI to be able to distinguish the different capabilities 
>>> in comparison to common http.
>>>    
>> 
>> We have the same issue in gnome. For this particular issue we 
>> added dav:
>> and davs:
>>  
> This is somthing where a standard would be werry usefull! Being 
> able to past URI between Gnome, KDE, and other environment is a big 
> win. It will probably help in interprosess messages to, not to have 
> to handel URI translation between different envioronment in every 
> second message spec.
> 
> 
Agreed, but such a standard - while it can be created here - ideally 
needs IETF/IESG approval, and turned into a Real Standard, or else 
should have no impact at all on applications not following any 
standard we define here. New, unregistered, schemes are, in my 
opinion, simply hurting interoperability and locking out applications 
and desktops which don't follow this spec. That's not, I hope, what 
we "do".

Please, leave inventing cool-sounding URI schemes which nothing else 
understands by default to the likes of Apple and Microsoft - it's a 
proprietary solution.

Dave.