Re: [whatwg] Geographic hyperlinks

2011-10-11 Thread Matthew Slyman
Dated June 2010... It appears someone raced me! I look forward to seeing this implemented. Only... One weakness in the existing document that might be addressed as an upgrade to this specification at a later date: there appears to be scant reference to methods of specifying date and time as

[whatwg] Geographic hyperlinks

2011-10-10 Thread Matthew Slyman
http://forums.whatwg.org/bb3/viewtopic.php?f=3t=4725 [Topic has been on forum for 2 weeks without reply. Now posting to mailing list.] -- Hyperlinks for geographic coordinates are a mess. Designers of web applications are being forced to design their own solutions to make geographic links

Re: [whatwg] Geographic hyperlinks

2011-10-10 Thread Tantek Çelik
See RFC 5870[1] for a proposed standard geo URI scheme for geo: hyperlinks. - Tantek [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5870 On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:27, Matthew Slyman wha...@aaabit.com wrote: http://forums.whatwg.org/bb3/viewtopic.php?f=3t=4725 [Topic has been on forum for 2 weeks without

Re: [whatwg] Geographic hyperlinks

2011-10-10 Thread Christoph Päper
Bjoern Hoehrmann: * Christoph Päper wrote: geo:13.4125,103.8667@mars You can specify the coordinate reference system with the crs paramameter Yes, but I don’t think it’s a good design to select the astronomic body with the same property that you use to switch between different CRSs for a

Re: [whatwg] Geographic hyperlinks

2011-10-10 Thread Rob Manson
You can define the crs (srsName) for a geo: link which effectively allows you to do that. See the registry in the spec. roBman On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 21:26 +0200, Christoph Päper wrote: Tantek Çelik: See RFC 5870[1] for a proposed standard geo URI scheme for geo: hyperlinks. I