Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Wed Jun 3 02:21:09 BST 2020
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It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated:
Basically we can now think of the line:
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scheme:restofuri Human friendly label
as equivalent to something like:
<scheme arg1="restofuri" arg2="Human friendly label"/>
text/gemini would be fully as extensible as HTML where client authors
can just invent new tags like <blink> and <marquee>. It's exactly what
nobody here wants.
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slipthorugh your fingers."
Here's the list of all registered URI schemes:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml
I will bet you that 99 44/100% of all links on the Internet are:
https: http: mailto: file: (and these are always a mistake on the part of the author) ftp: gopher:
Honestly, I don't think you have to worry too much.
-spc