[ticker-dev] V3.0 Of the tickertape notification format specification - attachments and a suggested addition... (fwd)

[David Arnold]

-->"Martin" == <martin.wanicki at boeing.com> writes:

  Martin> The use of the attachment field at this point in time seems
  Martin> to be predominately for passing url's around.

yes.  that's all the majority of clients have supported until very
recently.

  Martin> <...> I propose the addition of an optional attribute for
  Martin> the purpose of passing url's. A possible name for this might
  Martin> just be Url: or Hyperlink: or whatever name on which a
  Martin> reasonable consensus can be reached.

this was briefly mentioned during ticker discussion the other day, but
didn't seem to attract much attention.  

maybe it's a good half-way step between the 1.3 spec and a future spec
with full attachment ability?

or maybe MIME attachments is not something we really need/want?

  Martin> Regarding backward compatibility issues, the old MIME_ARGS
  Martin> attribute *may* be considered equivalent since it has been
  Martin> predominately used for url's. 

i'm happy to ignore backward compatibility :-)

  Martin> Perhaps support for multiple url's should be moved to the
  Martin> mime attachment or perhaps we define the Url field as
  Martin> containing either one or more url's with a caveat on
  Martin> separation (i.e. at most one url per line of text)

i worry about usability issues in clients if we have multiple ways to
attach things ...

if we go for a separate mechanism for URL attachment, i'd be tempted
to drop the MIME attachment for now.





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