On Aug 4, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Morbus Iff wrote:
In fact, I have a feeling that we should put an effort behind foo:// patterns as defacto standard for Drupal over [foo:] patterns.
Actually, for what it's worth, we should NOT use internal:// or *any* foo:// patterns. Doing so, even internally, is a creation of what appears to be a new protocol, even though it's actually not. We should instead create a new URN, such as internal:node/4. Apple, in the past two years or so, I think, got flamed for using webcal:// for it's iCal application, where webcal was merely a file format, and not a protocol.
Aww man ... that's exactly what I was concerned about when I asked last week if there was "any standard or convention for choosing the label we use for such a URL". The only docs I found in some quick googling were way out of date, so I wasn't sure what the current standards permit. I guess for a filter, maybe I'd better limit the regex to searching for internal: after an href=" or a src=" With internal:// I felt it was relatively safe to search for it anywhere. Ray