[Bug 10331] Clarify meaning of "defined to contain a URL" and "defined to contain one or more URLs"

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10331

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #4 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2010-09-28 23:31:57 UTC ---
usemap isn't defined to take a URL, it's defined to take valid hash-name
reference. That seems quite clear.

form.action is a URL (this is intentionally not like non-IE browsers, since
IE's behaviour makes more sense).

The legacy ones are all plain text (not URLs), since none are defined to be
URLs. This is explicitly stated for body.background for some reason, but it's
true for all the others as well.

I would really rather not go through marking all the URL-reflecting IDL
attributes explicitly, since that's just a huge pain and I'm bound to make
mistakes, both in doing it and later in maintaining it.

I'd accept a patch against the "source" file, though, if you feel strongly
about this and want to do it. Feel free to contact me on IRC if you need help
with that.


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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Spec seems well-defined as is.

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Received on Tuesday, 28 September 2010 23:32:00 UTC