Default Proposal : WebStep/scheme

Rohit Khare (khare)
Fri, 14 Apr 1995 00:52:49 -0700


Here's my take on the idea:

The owner should be the body responsible for providing the semantics of each
owned default name/value pair. GLOBALs happen to be defined by NeXT. These
opener semantics are defined by WebStep.

So how about "WebStep" as the owner for these defaults?

Next, what format should the opener defaults be? I suggest we directly resuse
the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) scheme names:

WebStep/http = "HTMLApp"
WebStep/ftp = "FTPApp"
etc... The catchall fallbacks are:
WebStep/url = "URLApp"
WebStep/urn = "URNResolver"

Alternatively, it could be SchemeOpener, SchemeGetter, SchemePrinter -- I can't
imagine why, though.

In general, the fallback policy ought to be to ask Workspace for the app that
will open ".html"

Rohit Khare