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> URIs the browser can't use to locate something are useless in the context of the web. The obvious counterexample to this is the mailto: URI scheme. It has no

> URIs the browser can't use to locate something are useless in the context of the web. The obvious counterexample to this is the mailto: URI scheme. It has no location but it is still a useful thing to link to on the web.

immibis 2y ago
It locates and opens your email program. Sometimes it even locates and opens another web page (Gmail/O365).
- JimDabell 2y ago
  It doesn’t locate my email program. It contains zero information about that.