- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:01:35 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > My understanding is that the specs now have just two functions (one for > ASCII and one for Unicode). Is this not the case? No, because various places in the spec rely on different behaviors for the non-triple origins. >> Fundamentally, by the way, that's what Access-Control seems to rely >> on... > > How so? It specifies that you stringify the origins and then compare the strings, so in the most direct possible way. > The benefits would have to be really great to start introducing new > standard syntax, IMHO. I'm a little concerned that we're putting the cart > before the horse here -- we need to prove a need before we solve it. Agreed. I guess from my point of view as an implementor I'd rather not implement the spec as written than have 4+ stringification functions, which is where things seem to be headed right now.... -Boris
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