[9628] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
URL Expansion proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Israel del Rio)
Mon Jan 15 22:55:44 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:44:21 -0700
From: idelrio@abstraction.com (Israel del Rio)
To: rgrant@spry.com (Ryan Grant)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
>>Anyone with Spry's Mosaic 95 can type "ibm" and see a web page.
Ryan, I tried it and it sure looks as if you went a step ahead of
my proposal. Spry is expanding the name to www.name.com. Now, if Netscape and
Microsoft agree to a convention like that I'd be really happy.
>>Note that for any given "foo", "foo" is not and never ever will be a valid
>>url, so this implementation trick does not conflict with the standards (nor
>> should it be one).
Exactly.
>>Note also that it is not possible to indicate that your company is on the
>>Web (and therefore somewhat cool) simply by showing your name. URLs do have
>>style.
Well my * idea at least keeps the implied meaning that the enclosed name is a
Web page address!
Best regards,
snip://wwn.del_rio.israel.mr/
(snip = silly name information protocol; wwn = world wide names)
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