IPP Mail Archive: RE: IPP> ipp: / http: in the UI

RE: IPP> ipp: / http: in the UI

Harry Lewis (harryl@us.ibm.com)
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:51:38 -0400

It's not necessarily either/or, in my mind. OS support is paramount so =
good
thing we have Microsoft, Novell, Apple and IBM on the team! They will p=
rovide
the infrastructure upon which integrated clients may be developed. Also=
, there
will be clients which evolve as elements of higher order print and prin=
t
management software solutions, I'm sure. But none of this precludes the=

possibility of recognition by generic web clients or commonplace web
infrastructure (i.e. Netscape as you put it).

Today, (for example) if I'm checking the weather in Boulder at
http://www.atd.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/flabweatherE and I want to contact the=
weather
station manager, placing my cursor over his e-mail link results in the =
URL
mailto:cook@atd.edu in my browser command line. When I click, my mail
composition client (of choice) is launched and Mr. Cook's address is
automatically filled out for me. There is no reason why, tomorrow, I co=
uldn't
(hope to) be viewing a white paper on the WEB which has a "printto", "p=
rint" or
"ipp" link that behaves in a similar manner whereby clicking invokes th=
e native
IPP client, or client of choice, merrily helping me launch my print job=