Re: IPP> ipp: / http: in the UI

Jay Martin <jkm@underscore.com> Wed, 15 July 1998 17:50 UTC

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Paul,

> (Actually I quite like 'printto:' - what do others think).

Glad you brought this up.  If the final resolution of this whole
scheme issue results in something *other* than "http:", then
I'd prefer Keith's suggestion of "print:" as a scheme as opposed
to your "printto:", since the "to" suffix is both unnecessary
and counter-intuitive (given that the PDU can very well contain
requests that are not job submissions).


> Saying that IPP lets me know that its a printer is an excuse for bad design.
> Any UI  that expects people to differentiate by hovering over the link and
> looking at the status bar is broken.

Perhaps you're right that the UI should *not* expect this
"hovering" behavior, but nonetheless it is quite prevalent
from what I've experienced.  That is, I don't think we should
discount the frequency and value of hovering as part of a
positive user experience.


> Nobody is going to put printer URLs on their business cards.

Do you really believe this?  I mean, an aweful lot of IPP
proponents (in the PWG) clearly believe that one of the greatest
values of IPP is its use as a fax-alike mechanism.  I honestly
don't think such a capability is nearly as powerful a potential
as some of these people seem to believe, but there will be some
who actually implement this, IMHO.

	...jay

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