Re: Bug 1852: support creation of xmpp: field types in OGo

On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 18:58 +0200, Helge Hess wrote:
> On Mar 25, 2007, at 18:34, Adam Williams wrote:
> > but, again, what
> > about cases where the URL looks like: aim:goim?screenname=notarealuser
> > Here the UI would ave to see the "aim:" and take out all the text  
> > after
> > the "=".
> Exactly. So what? :-) Just turn the String object into a URL object  
> and display the necessary parts.

Doh!  Of course that works, need more coffee.

In .NET Uri(value) blows a UriFormatException if you pass it something
that is crap, so you know it isn't a URL,  otherwise it is a link to
something.  Simple enough.

> By using different type's for URIs, you just replicate typing  
> functionality already contained in the URI. What is harder, letting  
> all clients know about all types we invent or just use the already  
> available parsers and documented URI scheme? ;-)

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