Re: WebStep proposal: Standard default?

Bill Bumgarner (bbum@demiurge.friday.com)
Wed, 12 Apr 95 20:24:06 -0500


OK, how about:

URLApp [or URL-App, URL_App, URLapp, URL.app] -- generic thing to handle all URLs.

Then:

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?"]

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Yeah-- maybe this is a bit much in the way of detail, but if we are going to DEFINE a standard and even provide CODE snippets while discussing this standard, we might as well implement a silly little object that one can link/build into one's app to support all this... Would certainly be a trivial thing to build. And there is no reason why it shouldn't solve most of the problems.

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BTW: if you haven't played w/Netsurfer yet, check it out... it is definitely the best WWW browser for NS yet [imho].

have a nice day! b.bum