Re: request for a new URL scheme

[Reed Wade <[e-mail]>]

This is not necessarily a bad idea but I think you'll
have a very hard time getting this adopted. And if
adopted, implemented by browser writers.

I'd suggest trying something a little different.

Define a new mime type that's associated with a
well formed mud description.

For example

x-application/mud-info

as the mime type for a file that looks like this:

host: blah.org
port: 8080
description: blah
admin-contact: [e-mail]

You'd then need some sort of helper application that
would read this file and fire off the mud client
(or build this functionality into the mud client).

One advantage to this is that it could be done
without any browser changes. If it becomes popular
then browser writers could easily obviate the helper 
application.

Another advantage is that the people who care most
about it, the mud community, get to make the important
decisions about how it would work.


Reed Wade
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