Re: Confusing use of "URI" to refer to IRIs, and IRI handling in the DOM

Smylers wrote:
> ...
> And I'd've thought that for many people "URL" simply means "the internet
> address you can type in a web browser" (since this is by far the most
> common situation in which people encounter URLs) -- in which case, their
> beliefs about what a URL is comes from browser behaviour, not a spec.
> For these people the HTML 5 definition is actually an improvement, since
> it will result in the spec matching their existing beliefs!
> ...

That's true, but those people certainly are not the intended audience, 
for this spec, right?

BR, Julian