From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920706301326j6efe8921td46d6958299eef62@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:26:11 +0200 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] URI scheme for 9P2000 resources In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070630121222.GA28862@nibiru.local> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8d31f750-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 6/30/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > > > but what is the point of encoding a dial string+path as a url? > > > > Integration in web-like environments, ie. mozilla ? > > > > I'm going to add an minimal 9p client into mozilla. So you can > > simply put an 9p url into the browser and have fun ;-) > > mozilla, unlike emacs, is not an operating system. You didn't get the Web 2.0 memo? If so, I truly envy you. > part of the difficulty here is you are trying to stuff different plan 9 > concepts into a uri. command line arguments don't interact with > 9p in plan 9. likewise, dial strings are outside 9p. putting them > all together is uncharted territory. URIs are just hideous, but maybe this is not completely uncharted territory, at least ken mentioned in some interview that he had been thinking about a way to have a global (internet-wide) namespace for 9p servers, would be nice to hear what he had in mind... uriel