On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:33:28 -0700
Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> The proper form of an irc url is in my example
> "irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis" and I took it from gentoo's irc
> channel page at http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/irc.xml .

Exactly. Most web browsers would know what to do with that, too.

> That would mean limiting a single <irc></irc> field to just valid
> url's just like the <homepage></homepage> field.
> 
> <irc>irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis</irc>

Why not go with a slight variant of the venerable <a href> format?

<irc uri="irc://irc.example.com/gentoo-guis">Your support channel
is here</irc>

Either that or use two tags, <uri> and <description> nested in an <irc>
tag?


     jer

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