19 Oct
2021
19 Oct
'21
10:17 p.m.
On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:04:08 -0400
David Robillard <d(a)drobilla.net> wrote:
On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 10:00 +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:
I disagree.
Like many people, if I see what looks like a valid url, then that's what I
expect it to be, not some form of labelling. What is even worse, is when there
is a problem of some sort with a plugin, and host reports that the (apparent)
url doesn't exist!
Unless you know what this is you can waste a lot of time having been totally
misdirected. Speaking from experience :(
--
Will J Godfrey
https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/
http://yoshimi.github.io
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
And, of course, URIs are just strings - the fact
that they are
typically written with http at the start etc is just a namespacing
convention. The lv2 standard could have used
<e274923af6ffac82ad3f5beebb015380> instead of
<http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#plugin> and it would still work.
I've honestly thought a few times that maybe using a custom scheme
would have been better. It's objectively worse in every way, but the
instant people see "http" they lose their damned minds for some reason
:)
C'est la vie...