what about adding mailto: irc: aim: to the mime specification

Christian Neumair chris at gnome-de.org
Sat Aug 7 18:07:54 EEST 2004


Am Samstag, den 07.08.2004, 14:30 +0000 schrieb Kristof Vansant:
> What about adding mailto: irc: aim: to the mime specification.
> 
> You need to store somewhere which apps are able to handle these things.
> And one should be the default.
> 
> I type irc:\\channel at server and xchat (or another app, depends on the
> default) gets openend.
> 
> seems like gnome, mozilla and kde are all using different places to
> store this information.
> 
> What about adding this info to MIME?

Could you elaborate on your proposal? The current MIME spec only deals
with filenames, not with URIs as a whole.

regs,
 Chris




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