On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Gryllida wrote: > > Usecase 1: I search for python and see a link to their website in search > results, and the search engine looks up both title and IRC info - so I > see webpage title, and a link to its irc network or channel.
There's nothing stopping search engines today from exposing IRC links they see in Web pages (either in <a> or <link> elements, or indeed elsewhere). So this is basically possible today. > Usecase 2: Browsers implement some interface to display IRC channel > link or window when user visits a page. Advantages: This should be possible today too. If the need is a machine-readable link that is explicitly labeled as specific to the page in some way, then the simplest solution is to mint some new link rel types, as in: <link rel="official-irc-for-site" href="irc://example.com/#mysite"> If there is implementor interest, I recommend registering such a link type in the link type registry. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
