Subj : the presentation layer
To   : August Abolins
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Mon Jun 22 2020 01:01 am

Hello August!

21 Jun 20 17:43, you wrote to Tony Langdon:

AA> One example of a step forward to useability is the ability to capitalize
AA> on lauching http:// links in messages with a simple keystroke directly at
AA> a bbs or within an offline reader.  As a couple of others in the echo
AA> alluded to, there is room for designing new markup language distinct to
AA> fidonet that bbs systems and reader programs can understand.

What you want with url's works on my terminal, it is part of the presentaionlayer of my terminal program. I see no way how e.g. a BBS could launch a webbrowser on my screen. If it could I would consider it a security
hazard. Even if it could, it would be a feature of the BBS and not of Fidonet.

Kees

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