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[Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quite interesting, will give it a read tomorrow. But at first glance:
Seems to be another syntax to implement something along the lines of
http://x-callback-url.com/.

Thomas

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What about contractor?
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Rasmus Eneman <Rasmus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I just realized that you can use the URL concept for MIME types to:
>> mime://image/png&file://path/to/file.png or something like that
>> would work well.
>>
>> >Sure and in the works
>> Great!
>>
>>
>> 2013/7/18 Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Michał Sawicz
>>> <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > W dniu 18.07.2013 20:20, Thomas Voß pisze:
>>> >> My last status on this is that we are going to have a URL handler
>>> >> binary that apps can register with, much like for example on iOS. With
>>> >> that, Jamie's web-browser example is easily solvable, and so are more
>>> >> sophisticated use-cases like gallery://albums/birthday/cake.png. Not
>>> >> sure if it's DBus or not, but I'm very much in favor of doing URL
>>> >> handling as opposed to mime-type handling.
>>> >
>>> > Problem is when you start dealing with remote content - at that point
>>> > you need mime-type as well, or you can go for:
>>> >
>>> > gallery+http://host/path.png
>>> >
>>> > What if you don't know/care what kind of app should handle, say, a
>>> > downloaded PDF file?
>>> >
>>>
>>> Good point and I do agree in general, However, once we allow mime-type
>>> handling we break the strict per-app siloing of content.
>>>
>>> Not sure how to solve that issue for mime-type handling.
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>> > I basically think we need to be able to handle both URI and MIME,
>>> > depending on the use case.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Michał (Saviq) Sawicz <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> > Canonical Services Ltd.
>>> >
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>     Josh