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the use of someapp://...
Authored by: kukident on Feb 16, '03 05:13:55AM

..is that you can open files directly in an application, instead of downloading them first, and then opening them.

For instance, if you do ical://point/to/some/published/calendar.ics, it will open ical and download that calendar into the app.
sherlock://point/to/some/channel also works, for using sherlock channels.

I guess any app that uses services which can be accessed through a server/site will get their own "protocol".



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