[jdev] confusion over user at domain JIDs and email addresses?

[Justin Karneges]

On Friday 05 August 2005 01:56 am, Tomasz Sterna wrote:
> 2005/7/26, Mario Salzer <xmilky at gmail.com>:
> > Consider for example a web page with textual content like follows:
> >
> >     user: name
> >     jabber: creeesh at jabber.org
> >     popoflux: quit at example.com
> >     email: text at example.net
>
> The correct URI scheme for giving email addresses is 'mailto' scheme.
> http://www.iana.org/list-archives/register-uri/msg00004.html
>
> If you use it wrong, as in the example, or not use at all, you rely on
> guessing the rest from the context.

I think in his example, "email:" is just text on the page, not part of a URI.  
That should be enough context for a human reading it.  But you're right, if 
the page contained a URI (such as inside of an <a/> element), then you would 
use "mailto:" for email addresses.

> BTW: Did we finally agree on the 'xmpp' URI scheme?

There is also the 'im' URI, which I'm fond of because it is both intuitive and 
incredibly pompous.

-Justin