that sounds right to me, but I still don't know why it would launch Usenet... any who! I guess we have a way to launch terminal.
Ps I just tried it with a URL and it works too, you can create an href with the news:// predicate and it launches a terminal, but I can't seem to pass anything along to the terminal. Could have been useful for CLI commands instead of the copy/paste approach.
news:// points to Usenet resources the same way https:// points to the World Wide Web. It's up to your browser and OS what actually happens when you click a news:// URL.
There are MacOS clients for Usenet in case you actually want to handle those correctly (not sure why you would though).
> I can't seem to pass anything along to the terminal
You should not be able to pass anything to the terminal this way, any more than "https://rm" would pass "rm" to your terminal.
> Could have been useful for CLI commands instead of the copy/paste approach
This would be a terrifying security risk. You should not be able to click something and have your terminal suddenly filled with someone else's text.
Ps I just tried it with a URL and it works too, you can create an href with the news:// predicate and it launches a terminal, but I can't seem to pass anything along to the terminal. Could have been useful for CLI commands instead of the copy/paste approach.