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