Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:
>Why is this a better solution? This would require registering a URL,
>which requires changes to that spec. This would not be any easier to
>implement in the browser. Indeed, it implies a change to the wwwlib
>stuff, which I would not like to see.
Well, a <BACKUP> tag would introduce another form of link markup, which
I consider a Bad Idea. Far better (IMHO) to introduced an additional
form of the opaque string in HREF="url", which does not impact the HTML
spec. To define a new method is no big thing: write an RFC and hack a
browser to support it.
Look at Netscape! They are defining new methods willy-nilly.
about: and newsrc: methods are (so far) only seen in Netscape.
Adding a new URL protocol is much less hassle than adding a new tag.
I don't think libwww needs changing either, since any new stuff can be
handled before handing URLs off to the library. The libwww is pretty
flexible in this area.
Christian "webhead" <*>