! ! RFC#1:
! ! When opening a file, add the types ".html3" and ".htmld" to the
! ! open-panel. When you get a request to open a .htmld, tack on an
! ! "index.html". Icons for both of these have been chosen by the list and
! ! are available from the archive. [html3 will be the html icon with
! ! a Next futura font "3" in the upper right, or ITC Typewriter]
! !
!
! What is ".html3"? I haven't seen any reference to that before.
! Is a special extension needed for HTML 3.0 compliant documents?
!
Good point. Does anyone out there know for sure how future deployment of html3
source will go out on the net? For now it's text/x-html-3 or something like
that; will there be an <HTML3> tag? My concern is whether there should be some
tag attached to a file that's visible to a user (like a clear .html3
extension). Of course, this line of reasoning would lead to .html3d documents
too, and that might tread on the balliwick of the VRML folks :-)
! ! RFC#2:
! ! Add a URL: prefix to the http: or whatever, and stick it in
! ! the URIPboardType payload.
! ! If you have a TITLE or a bookmark, stow that payload in the
! ! URITitlePboardType.
! ! We have also declared a .uri file, which has a filename
! ! corresponding to URITitle, and contents == URI. So, when you see
! ! a .uri file, open it, skip 4 characters, and feed it into a new browser.
! !
! ! URIPboardType = "WebStep Universal Resource Identifier 1.0"
! !
!
! [Can we have a] W3 prefix (W3URIPboardType)
!
Well, WebStep specifies the Ascii string, not the name of the variable holding
it.
! URITitlePboardType = "WebStep URI Descriptive Title 1.0"
!
! This is useful but tricky.
!
! To use this as filename for .uri, what kind of characters can the
! title contain? Are spaces allowed?
This is why I had to recall .92 and release .93 :-)
The Title pasteboard type can have any old string; it's specifically bound to
the URI, rather than replacing NXAsciiPbType.
To use it as a filename, though, you have to filter out the /es; I use _s. It
also can't be longer than MAXPATHLEN, :-)
! If no <TITLE> is available (because for instance the destination has not
! been loaded), do you mean by "bookmark" the text of the anchor, ie
! all text between the <A> and </A>?
!
No, I'd say Suggested Practice is to use the string *the user sees*. For a
title, use the "rendered Ascii", and only a few words at that. If there's an A
NAME=, use the NAME.
!Should we also pass the image on a pasteboard?
No, that would be a function of RFC#3, pasting HTML (with rendered RTFD).
! RFC#3
! Same as for file extension. I am not sure why we would need a special pboard
! type for HTML 3.0
!
Any suggestions? I thought it was going to be important to distinguish between
HTML and HTML3 down the line. This seemed like a nice standardization move for
later generations of HTML3-specific tools.
Rohit