Re: WebStep proposal: Standard default?

Marc Guenther (samojed!yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de)
Thu, 13 Apr 95 23:46:46 +0200


> OK, how about:
>
> URLApp [or URL-App, URL_App, URLapp, URL.app] -- generic thing to
handle all URLs.
>
> Then, break it out into specific kinds of URLs:
>
> URL-mailto-app
> URL-http-app
> URL-ftp-app
> URL-news-app
> URL-gopher-app
> URL-file-app [By default, "Workspace?"]

I like that !
The default naming scheme for defaults seems to be the same as
naming objc classes, so it would be
URLMailtoApp
URLHttpApp
etc..

But I think the other form is more readable.

or the other way round:
UrlAppMailto
UrlAppHttp
...

Well, we just have to agree on something :)

And while we are at it, we can write a small Preference module...

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Btw, what about using Yftp for the ftp-url handling ? It would require some changes to the program, the most important that it doesn't insist on getting all parent directories first, before getting the actual file. But it shouldn't be that hard to do.

How do the applications talk to each other ? Are we going to use NXPerformService (I don't like that very much), or use the same mechanism as Mail, Workspace (Well, what mechanism exactly IS Mail using ? Speaker/Listener ? DO ?)

Marc