Question: what's involved in "getting the style into the user's app"?

For sake of argument, why can't we have a simple general solution like:

CSL styles go into a common directory; on linux, say ~/.cslstyles or some such.

Apps then simply watch that directory.

I'm not a developer, so probably missing some detail, but I think
simple is better all around.

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Robert Knight
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think I might be re-stating Frank's suggestion here.
>
> For mendeley:// links, we have an intermediate URL at
> open.mendeley.com (eg.
> http://open.mendeley.com/library/filter/mendeley-suggest) which
> forwards to mendeley:// or gives the user further steps if they do not
> have Mendeley installed.
>
> We could provide a similar page on citationstyles.org which would
> handle the details of getting the style into the user's app.  A simple
> implementation would present a list of apps and clicking one would
> forward to that app (eg. via a mendeley:// link, or a direct CSL link
> for Zotero) or provide suitable instructions.
>
> Regards,
> Rob.
>
> On 10 April 2013 09:42, Carles Pina <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In Mendeley: the publisher could host the style in any place and then
>> have a link like:
>> mendeley://csl://http://publisher.com/style/style1.csl
>>
>> The browser will invoke Mendeley to handle this link, which one will
>> download the style, install and select it.
>>
>> We always push the publishers to add the styles to citationstyles.org
>> github repository (with more or less success).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> On 9 April 2013 19:47, Sebastian Karcher <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'm not sure about 2 - I see a lot of potential downsides to that, too, but
>>> I thought
>>> 1) was in general already possible - Zotero (and I believe Mendeley) will
>>> install CSLs server with the right mime-type - I believe text/x-csl for
>>> Zotero.
>>> Charles - what about Papers?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Great questions!
>>>>
>>>> Two things, which I've said before:
>>>>
>>>> 1) I still think it'd be great for authors to be able to do a
>>>> one-click install from an author instruction page at a journal site.
>>>>
>>>> 2) that at some point, journals should just self-host the styles
>>>>
>>>> Can we really not make both of these possible?
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Sebastian Karcher
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > Hi everyone,
>>>> > I'm in touch with a rep from Taylor and Francis about getting a
>>>> > Journal/style list similar to what we got from Springer so that we can
>>>> > add
>>>> > their journals to repo (T&F started consolidating their styles about a
>>>> > year
>>>> > ago).
>>>> > I also suggested to them linking to CSL styles in their instructions to
>>>> > authors and she seemed open to that, but asked what to link to. Since
>>>> > every
>>>> > major CSL project runs its own version of how to install styles that
>>>> > seemed
>>>> > tricky. How should we go about that? What should I ask them to put in
>>>> > their
>>>> > author guides?
>>>> >
>>>> > Sebastian
>>>> >
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>>>> > Northwestern University
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