[gcs-pcs-list] on using URIs

[Alf Eaton]

On 01 Mar 2006, at 00:04, Alf Eaton wrote:

> On 28 Feb 2006, at 23:18, Ross Singer wrote:
>
>> I don't understand how URIs would work on something like a blog  
>> posting, honestly.
>>
>> Can you elaborate on that?
>
> All my weblog posts have tag: URIs, it's what's recommended for  
> Atom: <http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/05/28/howto-atom-id#tag>.
>
> All my weblog posts also have permalinks, so the http: URL for each  
> post could also be used as the URI.
>
> alf.

And while we're on the subject, two things I wanted to say...

My weblog post available in HTML at <http://hublog.hubmed.org/ 
archives/001314.html> is also available in RDF/XML at <http:// 
hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001314.rdf>. As on the desktop (file://  
URLs) file extensions aren't the best way of determining the format  
of a file's contents, the same is true of HTTP URLs. What should  
happen is that I could call <http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/ 
001314> and set the Accept headers of the request to the MIME type  
that I'd prefer to receive, for example "text/html" or "application/ 
rdf+xml". The fact that this is very rarely available is why we need  
unAPI.

Which also makes me think... If Apple decided that file extensions  
and MIME types are all suboptimal ways of identifying a file's  
content, and used Uniform Type Identifiers instead <http:// 
arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/11>, maybe UTIs are  
something we could use for unAPI? It is after all how OS X determines  
the types of data that can be passed through its copy-paste manager.

alf.