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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: QUrl in KDE 4
From:       Leo Savernik <l.savernik () aon ! at>
Date:       2005-05-20 13:31:44
Message-ID: 200505201531.50644.l.savernik () aon ! at
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Am Freitag, 20. Mai 2005 07:08 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> Michael Pyne wrote:
> >The theory's all well and good guys, but if people are using a URL, it's
> >because they don't *need* a URI, which generally means they're not doing
> >URI-like things to it.  If programs are trying to turn URLs into URIs in
> > a class that doesn't design it, they're buggy.
>
> I'm sorry, but reality proves you wrong. People ARE using URIs, even if
> they don't know they are.

Agreed. There's no need to impose additional burden upon the application 
programmers by making up a class hierarchy of URL/URI representations.
>
> The prime example are mailto: URIs. They are not URLs, yet everyone
> expects them to work with KURL and QUrl.

Don't forget the data: scheme (they are, ironically, called "URLs" in the 
defining rfc2397 ;-) )

mfg
	Leo

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