Re: Dumb moniker questions (was Re: Bonobo dependencies ...)

[Eric Kidd <eric kidd pobox com>]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 06:21:35AM -0500, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > > >  2) Can I refer to an HTML NAME using '#'?
> > > >
> > > >   http://www.foo.com/gnu-tools.html#ls     
>         What interface do you expect to get from your HTML name ?

An HTML viewer control, already positioned on that name? Or is that a silly
thing to want.
 
> > > It is an implementation detail, but my current take is that the '#'
> > > inside the http moniker could trigger a moniker that would connect a
> > > stream on the left hand side to a DOM interface on the right hand.   
> 
>         Easily, there is no need for a moniker to use
> seek_standard_separator. However, I think this is not a nice way to solve
> this problem; I would prefer:
>   
>         http://www.foo.com/whatever.html#dom:[ls]
>   
>         where [ls] is an optional tag. So the dom moniker will take any
> stream and convert it to whatever interface you want, this way we don't
> put special cases in the http moniker.

This is cumbersome, but unambiguous.

Cheers,
Eric