Re: user friendly uri names

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:34:34AM -0800, Michael Toomim wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Something like "applications://Office/" is especially bad because
> > in an URI interpretation "applications" would be the protocol,
> > "Office" the server to contact for that protocol amd the remaining
> > "/" path would indicate a query for the root resource on that server.
> 
> Yeah, what's the deal?  Conceptually, "applications" is a container (ie. 
[...]
> I'm saying this from the perspective of not having read rfc2396, because 
> I don't think that gnome's users are expected to read that document either.

  If it's not an URI don't make it look like one.
  If it's an URI follow the f....g spec.

Daniel

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