19 Oct
2021
19 Oct
'21
9:04 p.m.
On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 10:00 +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:
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...
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dr