Hi, This is an invitation to people from Chromium and other browser/ download application makers to collaborate on Metalink.
Metalink has the potential to improve the usability of the Internet at a large scale, particularly for users in countries with poor Internet connectivity (but also for others). Error correction, increased security, and failover to alternate mirrors are some of the benefits. It also provides structured information about downloads that can be used by download sites and search engines. Metalink is an XML file format & feature set that download apps support to offer improved downloads. It's developed by an open source community project that, after 3.5 years, is currently in Internet Draft form at the IETF [1]. About 50 apps currently support Metalink, including browsers, FTP clients, P2P apps, download managers, and the popular Firefox addon DownThemAll! [2] Metalink is frequently used by open source projects like OpenOffice.org, and many Linux distributions. http://www.metalinker.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink Chromium bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1751 -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bryan-metalink [2] http://www.metalinker.org/images/dta_ubuntu.png --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
