[om] [IDEA] om urls

[Manfred Riem]

Hi Paul,

Read the email of David carefully, that's the protocol 
doing so! Sorry it'll be a very slim protocol, but it
is a protocol. Although mostly in registering it and
getting the community to implement it in browsers ;-).



Manfred.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-om at openmath.org [mailto:owner-om at openmath.org]On Behalf Of
> Paul Libbrecht
> Sent: woensdag 24 januari 2001 12:44
> To: om at openmath.org
> Subject: RE: [om] [IDEA] om urls
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, January 24, 2001, at 12:02 PM, Manfred Riem wrote:
> 
> > A good idea, but then you will also need to define  
> > the protocol underlying the om: URL. Any ideas 
> > in that direction? 
> 
> 
> NO NO NO !!
> 
> The only communication happening here is the "GetURL" query 
> that goes from a browser, a mail program or other to this 
> desktop OMcentral application I'm suggesting to build. Just 
> as an email address to is passed to a mail client when 
> clicking a mailto: link or the host provided when clicking on 
> a telnet link !
> 
> This communication is platform specific and implementations 
> of this application will have to deal with these. On MacOS 
> this is implemented through AppleEvent and the thing is not 
> too hard to build. 
> On Linux and probably Windows this just handled through 
> command-line arguments which will have to communication 
> efficiently to the OMcentral, possibly launch it.
> 
> So no protocol...
> Am I the only one still clicking mailto: URLs or what ?
> 
> Paul
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